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...Baltic Sea- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-would hardly seem a menace to anybody. But they are close to the heart of Soviet Russia. Russia's door to the Baltic is a coast line on the Gulf of Finland only 300 mi. long, and the three little states overlook that channel down the Baltic. The least Russia can do is to be a little friendlier to them than anybody else is. Last week Maxim Litvinoff, roly-poly Commissar for Foreign Affairs, met in Moscow with the plenipotentiaries of the three. They took up the two-party non-aggression pacts they...
...inflation. Often known as "bootleg loans," they were beyond the reach of Federal Reserve control. Call loans are payable on demand, are secured largely by active listed stocks, are practically riskless. During 1929 the interest rate on call loans ranged between 5% and 20%. No good corporation treasurer could overlook that opportunity to use his idle funds. But the peak of all loans to all members of the New York Stock Exchange was $8,500,000,000-just one-half the figure which Inquisitor Pecora said was advanced by one company alone. By his calculations Standard...
...value of such a plot as Trinity's old churchyard is based on the fact that it is an open space in the shadows of downtown Manhattan. If it were sold for building its worth would decline, dragging down with it the worth of nearby buildings which overlook it. Hence its value is "fiction...
...tutorial system birth; the division of History, Government, and Economics has taken the lead in encouraging its growth: today, the officers of this division are the most outspoken opponents of the movement to halt that growth, even temporarily, by financial restriction. It is clear that no sensible man can overlook this record. But it is equally clear that he cannot overlook the significance of the intrusion of a contrary note into the discussions of this particular department. For that intrusion must be interpreted as bringing to a head all the strong sentiment against the tutorial system, and against its natural...
...attractions of House football, more popular this year among the heavyweights, and withal far less developed in the style of its game. Even last year only 25 per cent or less of the 150-pound squad played House football before the team's organization. In this connection one should overlook neither the tremendous increase in the popularity of crew following the creation of light Varsity and Freshman units, nor the large decrease in Freshman football players when the "gridiron diminutives" were abolished...