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...intelligent schoolboy knows that all this kind of thing makes all the people poorer than they need be and is sheer economic nonsense. One thing to do is to view with alarm, and this was ably done in Chicago last week by two potent Governors-Cochran of Nebraska and Stark of Missouri (see p. 21)-who discerned and decried a menace to "free America...
...poorer showings of the year, the Harvard riflemen lost to the M. I. T. sharpshooters by the score of 1352 to 1286, at the range of the winners...
...study of the abilities of 103 W.P.A. workers to predict their activities, the book concludes that women orr more than men, younger age groups orr more than older groups, single men more than married, poorer classes more than better ones, Jews more than Catholics, and Catholics more than Protestants...
...rich countries are getting poorer," boasted plump Dr. Walther Funk, Reichsminister of Economics, in Rome last week, "and the young poor ones getting richer...
Richer or poorer, Dr. Funk's country was last week certainly getting hungrier. Butter, cream, other fats, some meats are rationed in Germany. Eggs, common vegetables often disappear from market. Non-nutritive but ingenious excuses are left in their place by the Propaganda Ministry. A recent onion shortage was blamed on an "onion corner" by "international Jewry." Last week Germany was being given excuses instead of coffee...