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...Sorest point of all: highest-cost insurance (largely because of the necessarily high cost of selling it) is industrial ("burial"), sold to the lowest income groups, mainly by Prudential and Metropolitan. Out of 193,714,000 "burial" policies sold from 1928-37, 187,761,000 (97%) were surrendered or lapsed...
...long war between U. S. business and the New Deal, one of the wordiest sectors has been in the neighborhood of SEC. Last month, in the truceful atmosphere engendered by Rearmament, this sector began to grow quiet. Last week, on one of Wall Street's sorest salients, there was Peace...
...minority, but the sorest lot of all, are Poland's peasants. There are 20,000,000 of them, 5,000.000 of whom are continually unemployed. Few can read, some in Galicia do not know that the Emperor Franz Joseph is dead and that they are no longer Austrian subjects. To them salt is like gold dust, bread like caviar. But last week peasant boys were stolidly shuffling to mobilization centres, farmers were sending their only horses to bolster the country's cavalry-minded army...
This week he pushed his sorest worry, cotton, in a new direction. In the 1936 Soil Conservation Act, Secretary Wallace was empowered to use his funds to expand foreign markets and remove domestic surpluses of commodities or commodity products. Under this authority, and that latent in the 1939 Farm Appropriation Bill, he may spend $50,000,000 in subsidizing export cotton and cotton products. This was the first time that the "products" phrase of the authority had been used, and it was a politically agile move, since nobody has damned the New Deal, particularly its Wage & Hour Bill, harder than...
...energetically oppose the Bolshevization of other countries, for such Bolshevized regions are no longer self-governing states but only sections of the revolutionary Moscow centre. I know Mr. Eden does not share this view! Stalin does and openly admits it." (See p. 17.) The Chancellor, having thus pinched the sorest point he could find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech to announcing that: 1) Germany extends diplomatic recognition to the Empire of Manchukuo and assures Japan that the Fatherland wants no territory in Eastern Asia; 2) Germany has no territorial designs upon France or Spain and is "proud...