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...American Commercial Conference. At this assembly, in Washington, President Coolidge said: "Our associates in the Pan-American Union all stand on absolute equality with us. It is the often declared and established policy of this Government to use its resources not to burden them, but to assist them; not to control them, but to cooperate with them...
World Wheat Pool Conference. As so often happens to movements of profound significance and wide import, the world conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
...plot is neither new nor many-sided. Only a writer of M. Maurois' taste and charm could have kept out of all danger of becoming trite or tiresome. Under his pen the story keeps up one's expectant interest although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...Brother Saul," he has added to the charming lightness of touch and haunting melody of his style a certain strength, a subtle power that throws a brilliant light upon his characters and illustrates them through and through, while at the same time, he handles the old, and unfortunately often thread-bare, stories with an artistic delicacy that breathes into them a new life. In short "Brother Saul," lives--and that's the best one can say for any book...
...concerning us. It is in this field of promoting international understanding and good will that the Floating University can perform its best senvice. To teach 500 college men and women what other people do, what they look like, how they think, and how they feel (this last is often most important) is no light task, but it is worth the effort...