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...advanced courses you learn how they do not apply." This old verdict sums up the tragedy of academic economics: the struggle for a scientific approach to an essentially unscientific objct, the attempt to project reality into a vacuum by relegating the "other factors" out of the rump of reality, the economist wilfully shapes a fragment into an imaginary whole, his theory. By its very origin, economic theory is a segment...
Call to Arms. Stage-wise Almazánistas picked up their lines. While Government forces hunted its secret meeting place, the rump Congress whipped out a manifesto of its own. Reiterating Almazán's charges of Communism, it thought up some new angles, accused the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) of 12,000 political murders, among other crimes, concluded with a call to arms against Cárdenas...
...rump session of its House of Bishops, meeting under governmental pressure, forced the resignation of the three British bishops and sent word to the three...
...officials of conquered France worked like beavers last week. Their apologists swore they were not Fascists, but every effort they launched was calculated to fit their battered rump of a nation into the familiar authoritarian pattern of government by suppression, censorship, alibis, purges. Echoes of "Heads will roll" Hitlerism were heard from Paris to Marseille as the Petain Government announced that onetime Premier Edouard Daladier, onetime Interior Minister Georges Mandel, onetime Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, onetime Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and numerous other pre-Petain Government leaders were under arrest and would be tried and punished because "they threw...
...Loyal Attitude." Hoping the Nazis would release food for the hungry millions of rump France, the controlled press urged a "loyal attitude" toward the conquerors, and Spokesman Marquet shouted loudly in the direction of Berlin that it was not in Germany's interest for undernourishment to breed pestilence...