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...That is why such numbers of staggering drunks disgraced the uniform and yelled for beer."* Dr. Wilson later said he had been misunderstood. All he meant was that some of the Legionaries had "dropped their Americanism, their Christian standards of decency, dropped into French customs and came back to import them into the United States." Nevertheless, officers of the Legion, feeling particularly insulted by the expression "staggering drunks," roared at Dr. Wilson. Besides attacking the American Legion in Kansas City, Dr. Wilson took pot shots at the late Dwight Whitney Morrow, John Jacob Raskob and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Defending...
...Vargas rumored that he would peg the milreis to the dollar. Close second last week to the increasingly almighty dollar was the French franc. Turkey, which has quoted foreign currencies on Istanbul exchange in British pounds, switched all quotations into francs. Bulgaria and Rumania switched to francs for export-import business quotations. Czechoslovakia, which has quoted her goods in pounds for export, quoted proudly last week in the stable Czechoslovakian crown. Since the U.S. holds 44% of the banking gold (more than twice as much as France) rivalry between dollar and franc last week was not serious. Shipping lines which...
...Berlin the ''happy idea" produced divergent opinions. Behind a high tariff ($1.30 per bu.) German farmers have this year produced an unusually large wheat crop (160,000,000 bu.). Germany needs to import only about 30,000,000 bu. to bring its supply up to domestic consumption. Most of its imported wheat comes from the Danube basin, Manitoba and Argentina. It was not likely that Germany could or would take any appreciable amount of wheat from the Farm Board. But of U. S. cotton on credit Germany could make great use; its textile industry was deeply depressed...
Religion has led the U. S. Negro, as it led John Bunyan, to regard life as a pilgrimage through many pitfalls for gay rewards. This is the import of almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling...
Your article U. S. Minister Brodie to Finland (TIME, July 13) expresses only the half of it. Not only does he import spuds to Finland, he at one time imported Oregon apples to Bangkok, Siam...