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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made to Europeans are jeopardized by the political loans which remain like a hangover from the War. It seems to me that the people who want the Debts canceled are the same people who pay most of our taxes. Since canceling the Debts would increase our tax burden, why isn't it just that the chief taxpayers should decide our Debt action? Besides, these people-yes, our bankers and industrialists-are the ones who most clearly realize what is true-that debts paid now are paid in dollars of far greater purchasing power than the dollars that England...
...Isn't He Pretty?" The day might have ended quietly for the Conference had not loud shouts in Italian and French been heard from an adjoining room in which the 43-year-old Inter-Parliamentary Union (which has no official status whatever) was holding its 25th Congress...
...Bravo! Bravo Renaudel!" cried several Frenchmen while some Italians taunted "Isn't he pretty?" and others cried, "Down with France...
...have looked in vain in the last two issues of TIME for some mention of the Olympic Decathlon tryouts which were held at Evanston two weeks ago. Isn't it worthy of note that the three successful contestants in the tryouts were trained by the same coach, attended school in the same small town, two in the same institution, and that the first place winner broke the existing Olympic Decathlon record? It seems to me that Coach Brutus Hamilton of the University of Kansas has established a remarkable coaching record in training James Bausch, former University of Kansas athlete...
...collect taxes due. Said Teacher Nell W. Reeser: "The County Treasurer apparently thinks of us as a body of super-gold-diggers, who, by some magic wand, are able to conjure money out of the well-lined but carefully guarded pockets of the rich tax dodgers. But tax collecting isn't our business. If [the officials] can't do it, then they should quit and let some one else...