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Frederick H. Gillett, the white-goateed junior Senator from Massachusetts, made a speech a fortnight ago to a band of Republican women workers gathered in the Hotel Kimball at Springfield, Mass. He said: "It is at gatherings like these that we must sow the seeds which will win the election." He proceeded to comment on Nominee Smith's appeal for "a certain class or element of citizens...
...axiom that Jews are always plentiful as traders but scarce as tillers of the soil has been rudely upset by the Soviet regime in Russia. The State monopoly of trade has crowded out Jewish traders and forced them to scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...
...late Buckley Howe. In it, 30 boys started living, working and studying last week. They were state wards of 14 and 15 years, selected by Henry Ford and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare to be undergraduates of the Wayside Inn Trade School. Nobody pays their tuition. They will sow seeds, grind grains, bake bread, shear sheep, weave textiles to earn wages large enough to keep them in school and have a little spending money. Also they will dig into high school textbooks for four years, after which they will probably get good jobs in the Ford industries. Another modern...
...meant that an acute stage has been reached in the crisis of agriculture v. industry. The peasants have refused to sow and sell a surplus of grain above their own needs unless offered manufactured goods in exchange. They have not been offered these goods in sufficient quantities, because not even Dictator Stalin has been able to spur Russian industry to adequate production. Therefore the Soviet State has recently fallen behind in its efforts to buy grain from the peasantry by poods...
...year" does not come until February?when it is observed with fireworks. Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season that Chinese leaders sow the seeds of those many civil wars which burst throughout China each summer as surely as snapdragons...