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...Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes and restore coverages. ... I believe we must be prepared to subsidize directly such special crops until agriculture has again been brought into balance. At the end of such a road we could hope...
...years played Italian and other foreign concessionaires for suckers until Benito Mussolini gradually evolved his theory that the White Race is being aggressively menaced and must recover the dynamic attitude of Victorian England or ultimately suffer eclipse. Japan, during Depression, secured virtually the whole of Ethiopia's import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates. As soon as it was in working order, His Majesty turned around and fired the whole Italian staff of technicians, made a sucker out of the great Italian electrical firm of Ansaldo...
...author is a "promising playwright." He has the knack of making a scene move, however trifling its import. He is not yet the biographer of Charming People, the talent that his predecessor, Phillip Jerome Quinn Barry, developed so neatly in the Harvard atmosphere, but he can place words, phrases and pronouncements into the mouths of his actors and make them sound like life. By George Holland "Boston Evening American...
Since Italy has to import nearly all her paper pulp, the Dictator merged all his country's cellulose and paper firms last week "for coordination and acceleration of production"' Wealthy Italians, accustomed to write on notepaper folded in sheets of four or eight surfaces, followed Crown Prince Umberto who cut himself down recently to chits of one sheet. Last week H. R. H. weeded out of his peacocky wardrobe all suits and haberdashery from Sanctionist countries, ordered new royal gear 100% Italian. Next the vast gardens of his palace at Turin were plowed up at his orders, sown...
...Chaco having long since been buried in old newspaper files, President Roosevelt last week proclaimed that, provided Bolivia and Paraguay would import no arms and munitions until after a formal treaty of peace had been ratified, the U. S. embargo on such shipments to them would be lifted...