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...resolution to hold force in check whenever it is not in the service of right." Reporters who have seen many state funerals in Paris in the past five years, noted one novelty: three figures in long white sheepskin coats carrying a wooden box. They were Rumanian peasants, come to scatter Rumanian earth in the tomb of Louis Barthou, honorary citizen of Rumania since last summer (TIME, July 9). Hardly had the crowds streaked off to their homes than the Doumergue Cabinet took up the ugly aftermath of the assassinations. Obvious problem was to find a new Foreign Minister, but even...
Professor Mather said: "This is not a question of a few scatter-brained radicals making a demonstration; it is something far more serious than that. I am thoroughly in agreement with the program, and I think that it deserves the attention and cooperation of all Harvard students...
...country on its feet industrially, it will never be possible to balance the national budget in the future anyway without precipitating economic disaster; and so the present administration might as well do a through job of it now. If it wipes out the Wall Street crowd, it will scatter all but sentimental opposition to the principle of the unbalanced budget, and can in this way execute a coup of the first magnitude without alienating anyone but the victims of the purge...
...serious economists have dared to suggest: opening the till of government credit to the consumer. Every single governmental attempt to prime the business pump throughout four years of Depression has been one indirect method or another of easing credit to producers. The Governor of Georgia urged that Army planes scatter greenbacks over the land but no serious effort has ever been made to bolster buying power by direct consumer credit. To prove that his new government bank would be no sinkhole of public funds, Planner Morris cited the record of his oldest banks. In 23 years the Morris Plan system...
...Verdun!" Behind Belgium and Luxembourg, whom France trusts, Marshal Foch and General Weygand thought it sufficient to scatter only small forts, backed by what they decided to call '"Flying Fortresses." These, a post-War innovation, consist of trainloads of motorized trench digging and barbed-wire stringing machines of Gargantuan size. In three days each "Flying Fortress" is supposed to turn out a complete system of front line trenches for the sector which it covers and within a week all the "Flying Fortresses" working together can dig France in from the North Sea to the Sarre...