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...Shylock." By a fortnight of relentless pounding the little crippled Yorkshireman had driven into Latin heads that some sort of concession must be made to his demands. Shrewdly the French moved. Indignantly a question was raised by Prime Minister Aristide Briand: was the whole 45 million marks annual increase demanded by "mon cher M. Snowden" supposed to come out of the share in Reparations alloted to France (amounting to 54% of the total) ? Instantly, an actor taking his cue, the Governor of the Bank of France, potent Emile Moreau, was on his feet. With flashing eyes he cried...
Today not a single king or emperor is acclaimed "The Great." How many want to be? Are any trying for the title? Last week as Spain's lively, cavaliering Alfonso XIII sunbasked at smart Biarritz, he tossed a sort of answer to pert Coralie van Paassen, of the New York Evening World. "If it could be done," smiled His Majesty, "I would like to follow the example of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great...
...inclined to let them have a free hand. . . . My inclinations are towards industry and the development of Spain. . . . I am a worker. . . . The idea that a King is a man who lives in a beautiful house surrounded by silk-dressed valets and plumed lackeys, fine soldiers and such sort of people-a kind of touch-me-not-is antiquated...
...ideas of employe profit-sharing and of inviting consumers to become stockholders were probably not familiar to Surgeon Squibb. There was nothing of that sort in the Navy, very little of it in business. Now that both these policies have become commonplaces, the successors of Surgeon Squibb have produced an idea that is more or less of a novelty in 1929. What they propose is to invite not employes* nor consumers, but retailers, to become both stockholders and profitsharers...
Every courtier must have his queen, and Bachelor Norman's is a fussy old lady in a mythical lace cap?a sort of financial Queen Victoria. Her age is 235. In the bustling City of London she has been affectionately called for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street." In all her life she has never kept a favorite as long as the nine years she has kept Montagu Collet Norman. Courtier Norman was defending his Old Lady against concerted attacks on her gold reserve?especially against the attacks of ungallant Neighbor France...