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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relief, fuel famine, Veterans' Bureau investigation, Merchant Marine development). A great political letter-writer, he keeps three special clerks to handle his mail, works at his office Sunday afternoons. His grammar is good, his pronunciation Bostonian. In private conversation his voice is soft and controlled. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: A good practical politician ("The best Irish vote-getter in the U. S."), a legislator above the average. His political philosophy is liberal and humane, except on economic matters (the tariff) which affect the New England industry, when he turns conservative. His floor attendance is regular, his powers...
...Buddenbrooks clatters the Manns' ancient family coach. Their medievally faithful servant, Ida Jungmann, tended Thomas. He published Buddenbrooks in 1901, the year of the first Nobel Prize, which he did not win. For almost three decades Buddenbrooks has been constantly in press, still sells in Germany at the rate of 4,000 copies yearly, was brought out in the U. S. by Knopf...
With bullish feeling prevalent, selling of stocks slackened, ended abruptly as the significance of Constructive Factors became apparent. Helping to transform selling into buying was a further reduction ($710,000,000) in brokers' loans, reduction of the rediscount rate to 4½% announcement of a proposed $160,000,000 tax reduction...
...China before he became director of the McMillan Hospital of St. Louis and of the department of ophthalmology in Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President of China at the rate of 2,000 per hour without stopping day or night, the President would go without sleep for one whole month. There are probably not less than one-half million of people in China today who are blind in both eyes; probably five million more who are blind...
...needed. The more people, the more friction. There are 1,792,000,000 people in the world. Chinese and Russians are 18% each; European Russians, 8%; U. S. citizens, 5%; Germans, 4%; Japanese and British, 3% each; French, 2%. Such a scale should provoke the thought of those who rate low. Author Thompson's study embraces the following danger spots: Japan, China, Australia, the Western Pacific, India, South Africa, Italy, Central Europe, Great Britain. They are dangerous because "it so happens that the peoples who are already feeling keenly the need of new lands and resources are also...