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...nature uncontrollable, and two, that Mussolini is a power unto himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising, alternative, II Duce might infinitely prefer to slash at the defenceless proletariat in the usual fashion rather than tread so heavily on the toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank of England may not prove sufficient to increase exports to any appreciable degree...
Arise and slash your thralldom chains...
...outside and white within. England cannot stand the burden of more social legislation, but the party if it has a majority, cannot hesitate to demand it. As with Labour governments of the near past, all the pressure from the Treasury will be exerted on them to slash what relief provisions are now outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that is what Strachey so aptly called it; and will the rank-and-file stand for that next time? Will it consent to have labour representatives doing the dirty work...
Parents immediately wanted to know who is in line for Dr. O'Shea's job, one of the city's best-paid ($25,000 a year minus a temporary $5,000 slash) and potentially one of the most useful. Dr. O'Shea has been a public schoolman for 46 years. He was appointed Superintendent in 1924, succeeding Dr. William L. Ettinger who was politically ousted by Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan. Dr. O'Shea is kindly, gentle, petulant when criticized, sometimes in poor health and now poor in eyesight. A good Roman Catholic...
...that their relatives were wrongfully operated upon or autopsied in Duke Hospital. Too, there was talk at Duke that the University income (mostly from Southern Power System) is declining or will decline, and that University officials who in better times built themselves costly homes now face a substantial salary slash...