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...Japanese yen continued last week its recent upward movement (TIME, March 1). As Chinese merchants invested heavily in yen at Shanghai and Hongkong, Japanese bankers watched the quotations creep up and up at Tokyo. Before the week closed, parch-ment-skinned board-boys 'chalked up a weird symbol meaning "One yen equals 47.312c today"-the nearest approach to parity (49.85c) since...
...reader with even the faintest metrical sensibilities. This tasty bit of verse contains no less than five various meters comprising trimeter, tetrameter and rentameter with iambs, and dactyls thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this page is the excellent drawing by Mr. Codfish Cabot showing Lampy...
...ought not to be an easy task for a man of Mr. Dawes' tempera- ment. Already it is apparent what j things may be said of him. Sen- ator Pat Harrison, whip-tongued I keynoter and fire-eater from Mis- sissippi, has unleashed his vocal chords, calling "strikes" derisively against any Republican who may come to bat. Last week he gave his hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction...
...have received very much and have just this one criticism to make. You evidently invite and look for letters from your readers. So far the general trend of your editorial replies to them has been sarcastic and not-to-the-point and incomplete, such as, for instance, your treat-ment of the replies calling your attention to the fact that you had used the incorrect name in dealing with a former Supreme Court Justice as to his being a Roman Catholic or not. I think every bit as much publicity should be given to your corrections and replies...
...reserve us rooms at ment, including Labour, kept his the Drummond Arms, will...