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...Stewart-Warner management had been astute, they would also have induced Mr. Zerk to agree to stay out of Stewart-Warner's business. For Mr. Zerk happened to be the fourth largest stockholder (5,000 shares) and had no intention of watching his investments depreciate without a murmur. Last spring Mr. Zerk launched a ferocious proxy campaign to oust the management, charging them with pocketing unconscionable fat bonuses, with gross inefficiency and general lack of business acumen...
...what a budget ought to be. Of its 2,112,000,000 yen ($633,600,000), full 44% went to the Army and Navy, an alltime peacetime high. The Army got 450,000,000 yen ($135,000,000), the Navy 488,000,000 yen ($146,400,000). Hardly a murmur was raised against this gigantic bill for war weapons and men to use them. Indeed, Foreign Minister Korekiyo Takahashi was credited with a victory in preventing the budget from going up another 400,000,000 yen as the Army and Navy originally wanted...
...unbalanced budget, the Chamber of Deputies warily received last week the new Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When he asked a vote of confidence, more than 200 bored...
...hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge on dry land! Did one but object that such a bridge would not span the river, the masters of the scheme should shake their heads wisely and murmur, "Mahomet!" So the river will be brought to the bridge...
...Jewish blood in his veins. At this point the Chancellor is injured in a motor accident. Only the Jewish professor is skillful enough to save him-with a blood transfusion donated by a Polish Jew servant. Fitfully slumbering as he recovers, the Jew-blooded Chancellor is now heard to murmur strangely of Liberty, Tolerance, Humanity...