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...said Tom Paine, at the beginning of the American Revolution. He said a lot more, during the course of that struggle; he tactfully remarked that General Howe "showed an inbred wretchedness of heart made up between the venomous malignity of a serpent and the spiteful imbecility of an inferior reptile;" he laughed at the Tories, then cursed them; and he stirred the people. But if he had lived today, he would have found a new enemy, and faced a struggle for which he could have found no words. One can no longer put an edge on the verbal sword...
...something innocuous to quarrel over and thus keep itself out of serious mischief while waiting for the House to whip through the President's domestic program. Most of last week, therefore, the Senate was kept busy talking about this pact with Canada. The substance of the debate was inferior to its manner. Most politely vociferous opponent of the treaty was Illinois' aging, asthmatic Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who wore a new fawn-colored waistcoat for the occasion of his oration...
...Wholesale Liquor Dealers Committee of New York telegraphed Federal Alcohol Control Administration's Director Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. to turn the "spotlight of publicity" on an alleged whiskey trust which had cornered 90% of the nation's straight spirits. "Distillery interests," he charged, "are selling inferior blended whiskeys that are cut with more than 17% of artificially colored water and alcohol and are injurious to the health of the consuming public. They are selling these blends to the wholesale and retail liquor dealers at prices around $30 a case. If they are permitted to be sold...
...those who believe strongly in two popular tenets, one, that inflation is by nature uncontrollable, and two, that Mussolini is a power unto himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising, alternative, II Duce might infinitely prefer to slash at the defenceless proletariat in the usual fashion rather than tread so heavily on the toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank...
...many of the Houses where not only the walls have cracked but the floors have swelled also, as a result of improper waterproofing underneath the showers. In the rooms beneath the bathrooms water has leaked through from the floor above causing much repair work. Investigation has revealed that inferior waterproofing material was used and that it failed to give the necessary protection...