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Decentralization is a prime tenet of the Hoover theory of administration-dividing the work into parts and making one person responsible for each part. He would rather appoint a director of this and a director of that and let them choose assistants than entrust this-and-that in one lump to a commission. Radio is an example. Last week radiowners throughout the U. S. made out new dialing charts as a result of the Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas...
...blue-gummed, henna-bearded gaffer, Jack Horner-like, pulls out a lump. Feverishly he wipes the gluey carrion on a corner of his burnoose. Marshallah! A rose-pink pearl, pale, perfect, which-flesh-embedded-escaped the first casual pawing of the opened shells...
...between the German and French Foreign Ministers, Stresemann and Briand, during their once famed but now forgotten luncheon conference at Thoiry (TIME, Sept. 27, 1926). As generally envisioned, today, the project involves scaling down the future Dawes Plan payments to be made by Germany, in return for a present lump payment from Germany to the Allies. The only way that Germany can raise such a sum is to sell in the general investment market securities amounting to a mortgage on the German State Railways and kindred properties. It is still persistently hoped by many Europeans that the U. S. will...
Reports of the conference with Mr. Morgan were to the effect that the world market could not absorb sufficient German bonds to make the lump payment project feasible. In this case the statesmen can do no better than to definitely fix the amount of the annual payments, and the numbers of years during which Germany shall continue to pay them...
...with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter the bill, and critics could like or lump. There was of course, he smiled in conclusion, not the remotest thought of uniting church and state...