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Contemptuously the Foreign Minister deigned no reply. His pacifist declaration had been made for foreign consumption, had nothing to do with the steady onrush of Japan's war machine which was crashing Inner and Outer Mongolia last week. Greatest glory of the week went to a Japanese Col. Wada, who captured a Lamaist temple on the Outer Mongolian border...
...Creation of Reconstruction Finance Corp. to lend $2,000,000.000 to banks, railways, trust & insurance companies. R. F. C. checked the onrush of bank failures and rail receiverships. Up to last week it had lent $1,054,000,000 to 4,106 institutions...
Prominent in the sick ward of industry is a great, low-moaning giant whose condition has defied able economic physicians, deft financial surgeons. No sooner is one of his many ailments cured than his rising fever and unhappy bellows proclaim the onrush of another disease. He is the U. S. oil industry, who sometimes agrees with the doctors and sometimes shouts defiance at them. Many times the doctors cannot agree themselves. All year the oil giant's condition has grown steadily more alarming and his suffering is communicated directly to the many thousands of persons on his payroll...
...steel with a long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more product of combustion, most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with the rest of the slag. Yet, though the steel-worker dodges many a flying spark, many a molten stream, the liquid steel does...
Naturally, when President Wilson went to the Versailles Conference he took the Secretary of State. Mr. Lansing opposed linking the League Covenant with the Peace Treaty, was antagonistic to the Treaty itself. He had many erudite theories. But President Wilson had long felt the onrush of foes, foreign & domestic. His visionary ardor had become imperiousness, self-sufficiency. He conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force...