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...Steps Snowden. At heart all British Laborites are free traders, because they are all Socialists. Scot MacDonald's wavering toward an Empire tariff wall in recent weeks (TIME, Sept. 15) has merely reflected the fear of many Laborites that this new panacea will prove an unbeatable vote getter. But fear is not in pallid, crippled Philip Snowden. With the courage of an epileptic or a madman (though he is neither) he defied the Great Powers at The Hague Conference and won (TIME, Aug. 19, 1929 et seq.). Last week he forced the Prime Minister to let him at the Imperial...
...thumb. The vari-coloured aspect of the product has also been stressed by some authorities as an important factor in attracting and focusing the child's attention. No person or organization, however, with the exception of the Boston Traveler, has ever promoted the American lollypop as the eternal panacea for all infant ills...
...bring to you no panacea for this deplorable condition. I know of no magical solution. ... I believe the way out of the present difficulty . . . involves a repeal of the 18th Amendment [tremendous applause] and the substitution therefor of an Amendment which will restore to the States the power to determine their policy toward the liquor traffic and vest in the Federal Government power to give all possible protection and assistance to those States that desire complete prohibition...
...tests is not plausible for two essential reasons. Not only does his plan verge on the hinterland of idealism and as such is too heavily embellished with the burden of impracticality, but it has the further disadvantage of serving as a tonic for a faltering system which needs a panacea. In scratching the surface, the College Boards, Dr. Little's "humanitarism" scrapes clean of the root of the whole trouble...
...fertile of brain, thought up the scheme which he and Viscount Rother mere lay on British breakfast tables every morning as the sole panacea which can save the Empire from fiscal ruin (TIME, Dec. 2). Ingeniously they call it "Empire Free Trade" or "E. F. T.," because Englishmen are free traders by tradition. But their E. F. T. consists of two inseparable projects: first abolish tariffs among the lands of the British Empire; second, put a high tariff on anything entering the Empire from anywhere else. Plainly the scheme should be labeled "Empire Free Trade plus Imperial Tariffs...