Word: knottier
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Faced with knottier problems in war-torn 1940, Pinedo last month announced that his exchange control had temporarily suspended all applications for outgoing U. S. dollar-exchange permits-in effect a blockade of all U. S. products coming into Argentina. Later it was blandly announced that this was not a blockade, but a sort of bookkeeper's holiday to allow experts to study "the dollar situation." For Argentina, the dollar situation was serious. Her exports to Belgium, The Netherlands and France have stopped, and her sales to Great Britain no longer produce any foreign exchange, because sterling exports...
...from the post office by her Negro chauffeur in an ample, well-worn market basket. Every inquiry is answered by letter or in print. Dorothy Dix spends the morning sorting mail, penciling notations on routine queries to be replied to by her devoted chief secretary, Mrs. Ellen Bentley Arthur. Knottier inquiries are answered by dictation direct from the oracle's mouth. A few howlers are preserved for the edification of Miss Dix's friends. One which the childless adviser particularly ikes: "My baby's navel looks downcast. What can I do to naturalize...
...Moore's Book. In Manhattan, there was lately published a large book* elucidating the knottier problems of International Law. It is not a book for laymen; its interest can be only for the legally minded. Its author, Dr. John Bassett Moore, American Judge in the Permanent Court of International Justice, is doubtless the leading active authority on the subject in the U. S. Dr. Moore formerly lectured on International Law at Columbia University. His treatment of his subject was characterized by a fine faith in the value to mankind of the precedents of public International Law, which he held...