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Moments of Glee. Opening debate in the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Cripps made yet another of his austerity speeches. "We can draw no more," he said gloomily, "from our already attenuated reserves." Dollar imports of food and tobacco would be cut still further-in fact, Sir Stafford made it clear that dollar imports would be cut almost down to the indispensable bone of raw materials for British factories. Cripps also called for a stoppage of loans and credits to other countries, and a check on the "unrequited exports" which Britain has been shipping to the Dominions in order...
...effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps...
Squirrel & Cage. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps had opened for the government with an able but unexciting defense of his devaluation of the pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
Handwriting Analyst Muriel Stafford considered the evidence and announced that Joe DiMaggio "combines a flair for the dramatic with care and accuracy regarding detail ... a writer who does things well, calmly, doesn't like to be rushed" (see SPORT...
Professor Haberler was surprised at the extent of the devaluation and also at its coming despite Sir Stafford Cripps' assurances that it would not "But at least we can now be fairly sure that there will not be any further devaluation in the near future," Professor Haberler says...