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...example, Italian goods shipped into Austria, across Austria and on into Ger many would pay duty once (upon entering the Austro-German customs union) and no more, although crossing two political frontiers. Money collected by customs houses around the perimeter of the Zollverein would be pooled, then divided between the Austrian and German treasuries, under a proportional agreement. Since German customs receipts are already pledged under the Young Plan, the question of proportion is a nice...
...Jersey in about two years. Out of Dr. Flexner's surveys of U. S. education came last month a book * that roused to ire many a U. S. college dean. His thesis: that U. S. universities are inferior in most ways to those of England, France, Ger many, that they "have needlessly cheap ened", vulgarized and mechanized them selves ... a wild, uncontrolled, and un critical expansion has taken place." The true university, says he, must be a living organism, devoted to the pursuit of knowledge courses." and Law culture, and not to medicine "endless alone among special professional studies...
Success combines the best features of a newspaper, an historical novel, a cinema, a course of lectures. Its scene is Munich and Bavaria, 1921-23. Central theme is the trial and imprisonment of one Martin Kruger, director of Munich's National Galleries. Krüger is persona non grata with the Bavarian government; on a trumped-up charge of perjury he is arrested and convicted. As his friends work for his release he becomes for them the symbol of justice; to the government his unjust imprisonment is an instance of good administration. But for each side Krüger is only...
Many are the figures with a hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator...
Edward F. Hutton, Wall street broker, drydocked his famed auxiliary schooner yacht Hussar II at Brooklyn, prepared to be yachtless until his new boat, a square-rigged four-master, largest pleasure sailing vessel in the world abuilding in Ger many, is completed next September. The new craft will be 322 ft. over all, a crew of 70 men will...