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Blum's family were rich silk merchants. In a youthful volume, Du Mariage, he urged the Government to recognize that "man is polygamous" and adapt French law more fully to this circumstance. After penning sentimental poems, then literary and artistic criticism, and becoming some-what preciously overeducated, Léon Blum saw these things were getting him nowhere, became a lawyer and began regularly attending Europe's annual conferences of the Second (Socialist) International. Among seedy and impoverished Socialist delegates the brilliant and wealthy young French Jew began to group around himself in something like intellectual hero-worship...
...tell me, do you like my style? It is some-what after your own, you know. I learn from what you have written your son Marcus you hold letter writing to be one of the arts. Alas, dear one, it is an art we have lost today. Why? Because we are too busy. For example, Ciccro, should I want to communicate with Mussolini and tell him what an ass he is--even as you would tell Caesar--I need not take a reed pen and write on parchment and thence by messenger to Rome; no I need but take...
Last week scrawny St. Gandhi, some-what in eclipse since he failed to win Dominion Status for India, thrilled 350,000,000 Indians anew by announcing at Calcutta, "India cannot ignore Benito Mussolini's threat against the dark-skinned people. Although India is under British rule, she is a member of the League of Nations, and fully entitled to assist against another nation, in a noncombatant...
...respirator in the University laboratories at the request of the New York Consolidated Gas Company and sold the patent rights to the Warren E. Collins Company, which in return paid Drinker a royalty of between $200 and $300 for each machine. Emerson found it possible to build machines using some-what the same principle and allegedly more efficient at a price of several hundred dollars less than the Collins Com- pany. Suit was brought against Emerson for infringement...
...Since bread has been sold excessively cheap to Soviet aristocrats with cards,* the card system cannot be replaced by ordinary open sale without upping some-what the price millions of good Soviet proletarians (card holders) will have to pay for bread. To keep them from squawking, to prevent the abolition of bread cards from starting a revolution, there was only one thing to do: raise wages. Solemnly last week the Central Executive Committee raised, effective Jan. 1 the wages of millions of good Soviet proletarians, upped pensions and even scholarships. In generous mood it also upped the price the State...