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...Large numbers of my people," cried His Majesty in clear, ringing tones, "are still unable to find employment, and the persistence of this situation causes me the greatest anxiety. Unemployment, as we have known it for some years, is undoubtedly the gravest of our social problems. In particular I am distressed that many young men and women have never in their lives had an opportunity of regular employment...
Outside the U. S. the Depression has played hob with politics. In Britain a Coalition Government has been plodding along through crises of which last week's was one of the gravest, with great riots in London. France has swung from Right to Left while Germany amid civil blood & thunder was swinging in the other direction. A revolution turned Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam...
...speeches. At a luncheon given by Publisher Curtis the members shouted their applause when Hugh Bancroft of the Wall Street Journal told them that "in all probability the economic crisis has passed." They agreed thoroughly when he spoke against high taxes and said, "The cost of government constitutes the gravest obstacle to economic recovery." At dinner the members forgot that they were nonpartisan. Cheers drowned out hisses when Rubberman Firestone urged rhem to "set yourselves to stem the swelling tide . . . and work for the re-election of Mr. Hoover so that the advance of business may continue...
...replaced by recruits. The new recruits did not drill as well, and they had ideas of their own, no part of a good soldier's equipment. The 19th Route Army is still China's crack corps. Recently it was sent to deal with China's gravest military problem, the spread of Communist armies in the central provinces (TIME, Aug. 15 et ante...
Responding to this long-awaited invitation in the New York County Court House last week, the slick incumbent of "the third biggest job in the U. S." glanced alertly about him to orient friend & foe, shot his broad, lopsided campaign smile, sat down jauntily to defend himself against gravest suspicions of his official conduct. As he looked around him in the packed, hot chamber, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker could see friends aplenty: Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney's wife, a host of rowdy Tammanyites and the hard-headed Democratic minority of the Legislative investigation...