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...Bank of France in advancing the Bank of England credits of $243,000,000 to make up for the short-term loans Britain had agreed not to withdraw from Germany (see p. 16). He announced that the Department of Agriculture was working on relief measures for the 'hopper-infested West (see p. 12). And from U. S. Ambassador Frederic Moseley Sackett in Berlin came a suggestion involving cotton and wheat which President Hoover and his aides welcomed as "a happy idea...
Department of Agriculture experts began to devise ways & means of wangling the $15,000,000 surplus from the 1931 drought appropriation for use in the 'hopper...
...books on the Soviets. The book is a reproduction of the author's series of lectures on Russia given before the Lowell Institute this spring. It is only with this in mind that one can understand why a book of such an elementary nature has been published by Dr. Hopper, who is undoubtedly a foremost authority on present day Russia...
Although Dr. Hopper admittedly does not favor the Soviet system he presents as nearly an unbiased account as can be obtained of such a controversial matter. After finishing the book, the reader's feeling is likely to be that the author's grasp of the situation in Russia is so good that he should write a more advanced and scholarly book...
...face-lifting. But the old lady was clever enough to realize the futility of mere external dressing up. A blood transfusion was made and in her haughty blue veins there now flow some new corpuscles--some with a crimson tinge. She makes no claim to being an Edna Wallace Hopper. She grew old and experienced the peacefulness of age. But now she is a girl again, oblivious to the thought of others, but mindful that she has some thoughts...