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There were further reflections on the "gum'ment" and "Franklin De-lah-no Rosy-felt," but as his speech continued Senator Long's reputation for political shrewdness began to become more understandable. With the nation at its loudspeaker eager for another session of name-calling, with every important newspaper in the land primed to print his speech the next morning, Senator Long devoted the first five minutes to his enemies and the remaining 40 to propagandizing his Share-The-Wealth Plan. For his plan to make "every man a king" by limiting personal capital...
Easy Money. To quicken French enterprise Premier Flandin has insisted that money rates must be eased, and to get them down he had to fire the National Tightwad, respected M. Clément Moret, since 1930 Governor of the Bank of France (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week new Governor Jean Tannery was ready to play loose-wad. The play, long since approved by the Cabinet and hashed over in the Press, consisted in presenting the Chamber of Deputies last week with a bill at which extreme conservatives screamed "Inflation...
...international exhibition at the Royal Academy's Burlington House will be of Chinese art, scheduled for next winter. Collector Eumorfopoulos has agreed to serve on the committee. He will sail for China next month to help choose some of the famed Forbidden City treasures which the Nationalist Govern-ment has offered to lend...
Never a maker of anything so risky as predictions, and always a firm believer that the Gates of Hell could never prevail against sound money, Clément Moret entered the eclipse of Honorary Governor after setting Paris the kind of example Paris respects. Amazingly few years ago he was living with his wife and children in a flat so modest that the rent was but 1,500 francs a year. Soon afterward great Raymond Poincaré (considered by his worst parliamentary enemies "abnormally incorruptible") declared that Finance Ministry Clerk Clément Moret was "abnormally honest," had him sent...
...program, including Government-built low-cost housing, to prime the pump of heavy industry which refused to be primed by the first $3,300,000,000 appropriated last year. Such a program was discussed about the White House in astronomical terms of billions of dollars. Prime point was govern-ment spending on such a scale as the country had never before dreamed...