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...devastated areas, the amount being a charge against reparation payments from Germany, which were generally unpaid.) This year the Government has to face a budget deficit of about 2 billion paper francs ($100 million). On top of that, it has constantly to worry with maturing short-term commitments. The panacea suggested is to convert into long-term securities the short-term debt of France; but there is no hint of reduced taxation...
Unemployment Discussing the gentle inactivity of Labor,* the Post journalist says that unemployment is likely to be "the Nemesis of the new order." Mr. MacDonald won many seats in the last election and was allowed to reside at No. 10 Downing Street because oi his promised panacea for the vexatious unemployment riddle. He said: "I object to the unemployed being fooled any longer. . . . The Labor Party alone has a positive remedy for unemployment. . . . We.will take office because in dealing with unemployment we believe we have a program and a power that no other party possesses...
Without going into the public ways crying a panacea, without driving hope and conjecture ahead of what appears as legitimate possibility, yet taking a definite and most effective part in the consolidation negotiations of the west is William Sproule, President of the Southern Pacific Railroad...
Shortly after the University ballot on the Bok Peace Plan, J. P. Hubbard '26, chairman of the Harvard committee, mailed return postal cards to all those undergraduates who had registered their approval of Dr. Levermore's $50,000 peace panacea. These cards explained briefly the objects of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association and solicited in the first place membership and in the second place active work for the association. Naturally many of these cards were ignored, but 241 men signed up for membership and approximately 75 expressed their interest in doing active work...
...that Labor is the sole cause of value. He shows that value is fixed by "demand and the limitation of supply, or, in other words, demand and a certain difficulty of attainment." He goes on to say that on demand, and not on limited supply, can be found the panacea for which the laboring classes search. The significance of this is apparent, and Mr. Strachey brings it out in discussing Labor as a partner of industry; for, as demand is the raison d'être of wealth derived through the medium of Labor, it should govern Labor...