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...outgo and estimated tax revenues of ?30,000,000 weekly, ?20,000,000 was coining in from subscription to war issues, ?10,000,000 from sale of gold and securities abroad and the rest from customers' deposits lent by joint stock banks to the Treasury. Orthodox Economist Sir Josiah Stamp grumbled "inflation is just around the corner." Less orthodox Economist John Maynard Keynes, now a Churchill braintruster, admitted new taxes were inevitable, but lightheartedly added: "We are only beginning to put forth our economic strength. ... I find people too depressed about our finances...
...Roosevelt last week went Georgia's Governor Eurith D. Rivers, bearing 24 convention votes; North Carolina's conservative Senator Josiah...
Including several amusing incidents about the Association, "But Gentlemen. Who Shall Oversee the Overseers?" tells of one of the first formal alumni dinners which "was thrown into a very ungenial state," by the circumstances that the dinner was composed in a good degree of spoiled meats. Josiah Quincy, Jr. said it was rather a diet at Worms than a meeting of the alumni...
...mortem continued, but with a difference. On the strength of it the Chamberlain Government was described as "riding a bull market." Far from condemning what Britain had done and left undone for brave little Finland, from an unexpected source, the Labor benches in the House of Commons, M. P. Josiah Wedgwood rejoiced: "If it were not for the greatest piece of luck this country has yet had in the war we should have sent 200,000 men to Finland, and they would all have been captured...
...Greatest show of chiropractic instruments is in the Palmer Clinic at Davenport, Iowa, run by Palmer's filially bearded son Bartholomew Josiah...