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...when it goes on the dole. If this 35% increase in the birthrate holds good for the U. S. as a whole, the birthrate of nearly 5,000.000 on relief, instead of being around 17 per 1,000 as it is for the rest of the population, is nearer...
...volume with only a fractional gain. Not a healthy condition from a bullish standpoint. We would suggest that the substantial profits which have accrued in the past three weeks be accepted and a strategic retreat be made to the sidelines, awaiting a chance to fill the market basket again nearer the 95 level...
Sequel to Pity Is Not Enough (TIME, May 29, 1933), The Executioner Waits carries nearer to completion Author Herbst's big portrait of the U. S. from post-Civil War times to the present, takes the Trexler family fortunes from 1918 to 1929. By now the Trexlers are far dispersed from their Pennsylvania homestead: to California, Iowa, New Jersey, Washington. Only one of them has gone up in the world, and for him, as for his capitalist brothers, Author Herbst implies, "the executioner waits." Of the Trexler descendants who are economically on the down grade, most do what they...
...Commander Hayes of the American Legion can hope to supply a cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years ago. The most alarming thing is that in spite of the efforts of the last two years we are really no nearer the solution of our problems than before. Perhaps we should try a new method of attack...
...little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers will feel themselves most directly addressed in such straight words...