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...pretext for raising prices." We say this sounds like a county candidate of 30 years ago. Do you really believe that 20,000 bakers can connive so well against 20 million cook stoves? If so, then President Roosevelt can withdraw his Industry Control Bill-and send for the bakers...
...According to Mr. Wallace. It remains to be .seen whether the bakers will not add several cents (in some places they have already added 1c a loaf). Actually the cost of wheat has very little to do with the cost of making bread except as a pretext for raising prices. In France where wheat until recently was artificially maintained at a price of about $1.70 a bushel, a pound-loaf of bread sold...
Assuming a slightly choleric tone with a faint but perceptible reddening of the gills, John Bull has bellowed a loud protest at the Soviet Union for its jailing of four British subjects on charges of sabotage. Conservatives and reactionaries in the Oemmons gleefully welcomed the pretext to indulge in verbal Bolshevik-baiting, dwelling fervidly on the wicked OGPU and its modern inquisition tendencies. Threats to cancel lrade and diplomatic relations with Russia are noised about. Meanwhile Russia has announced her intention to go through with the trial...
...actions it swung American opinion over to the side of the Allies and finally brought us to intervention. Secondly, there is the fact that Hitler came to power through a burst of national hysteria and may have to retain power through hysterical procedures. He has used nationalism as a pretext; he may find that the flame will have to be fanned industriously if he is to remain its particular guardian...
...answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria, capture of a Japanese officer, a Capt. Gonshiro Ishimoto, was the pretext for aggression...