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HITLER: WHENCE AND WHITHER??Wickham Steed?Review of Reviews ($1.50). Impersonal but succinctly critical resume of Hitler's life and program by an oldtime English editor who thinks that, despite its faults, the Treaty of Versailles represents the soundest territorial order that has existed in Europe in modern times...
...Bank of Taiwan (Formosa), with deposits of 243,000,000 yen in 1932, is high in the second rank of Japan's potent empire firms. Founded in 1899, it got into trouble in 1927, saved itself with government aid and took over Imperial Rayon Co., the soundest asset of an insolvent debtor. This year the Government, investigating its affairs, indicted its Governor, Imperial Rayon's president and eight other officers on charges of having sold Imperial Rayon stock to themselves and friends below the market price. The trail of corruption wound into the Ministry of Finance...
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) was a pioneer Suffragist, called by Susan B. Anthony "The soundest constitutional lawyer in the country.'' She stormed the Senate Judiciary Committee, resolute in black silk, and in 1888 assembled in Washington the first international convention of women...
...yelled them selves hoarse. Was their President not El Benemerito, the Meritorious One? Had he not made a record in 25 years that no Hitler, no Mussolini could match? Venezuela had a balanced budget and a surplus of $13,00,000 in the national treasury. Her money is the soundest in the world. Not a single foreigner owns a Venezuelan government bond. There is practically no unemployment. Farmers pay no land taxes at all and may borrow up to 50% of the value of their land from a government farm bank. The country, with nearly 4,000 miles of good...
...conscience and judgment of that citizen allows him to support the policies of the President. We all believe in the unselfish ambitions and the patriotism of the man in the White House. But I would not nominate him as the Man of the Year. The soundest influence in public life in America today is Alfred E. Smith...