Word: sours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tasteful showing of excellent photographs of the Great Open Spaces, is better. Sadly, Britain's great Liberal daily Manchester Guardian recently observed: "The external architecture of the British pavilion is that of a plain white biscuit-tin . . . except for a glass pane with a highly conventional and sour-looking Britannia...
...look not at a structure but at Alpine heights; and Norway is all beer, fur and skis. Beyond lies Italy, a pavilion where oranges and lemons arrive each day so completely ripe and fresh from the groves, that no sugar is used in either the orangeade or lemonade. Sour are huge propaganda pictures showing such "atrocities" as Ethiopian blacks lashed by the whips of Haile Selassie's executioners before Italy won her Empire with bombs...
Last week the editors of the Advance announced that they had asked Mr. Babson for permission to reprint the special letter in question, received in reply an unexpectedly sour Babsonism. The Reports reminded the Moderator, were a "confidential service," and already "some subscriber had broken faith and violated his contract in making public these statements...
...Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been such a promise-breaker that the point was finally reached at which Government "loans, both long and short term, are no longer placeable!" Gardey roared that investors, burned on ''Auriol Bonds,"* have now gone completely sour...
...worst default area is Latin America, which accounts for more than one-half of all dollar bonds in default. Approximately 75% of the $1,500,000,000 worth of Latin American dollar bonds outstanding have gone sour in some degree. Only country with unblemished standing in this area of blighted credit is Haiti, which was, in effect, thrown into receivership by the U. S. Marines in the days of Woodrow Wilson. The neighboring Dominican Republic which also received ministrations from the U. S. Marines, has kept up on interests but is behind on sinking fund payments. In national credit standing...