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...Cuban students as a class are powerless to overthrow the Machado autocracy and it is suicidal for them to continue their terroristic reprisals. To effect the proper change and to guarantee the Cubans their own independence demands the prompt intervention of the American government. In 1929 when the sugar interests were snubbed by the acting Cuban regime, the U.S. Marines went storming down to protect the American interests, and in the present case, when deeper principles are a stake, there is every reason that the American government should once more take definite action...
...found myself powerless," Irving Bush stormed to the Press. ". . . Mr. Stephens has shown an appalling misunderstanding of the business. He spent $30,000 to get some accountants. They didn't discover a thing I couldn't have told him for nothing...
Developments during the past few weeks in Europe have placed Herr Hitler in a precarious position. Having ridden to victory on a wave of nationalism, the new German chancellor may find that he is only a chip on that wave, powerless to change its progress. Bad as would be the effects of a war on Germany and the National Socialist party, the situation may force...
Manhattan's wizened District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, 72-year-old Tammanyman, said he was "powerless to act" without names of suspects, referred the problem to police...
...down" unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey the proclamation. At Grand Meadow, Minn. a cousin of President Hoover luckily got out of debt by giving his farm to the bank. Two great railroads in the East were reported close to receivership. In a decade Federal bankruptcies had jumped from 23,000 to 65,000 per year...