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...grapes, cattle and lumber that grew on Istria's terraced plateau; Italy wanted a naval base. But when the Italian Government took a closer look at its new citizens it found that nine out of ten of them had symptoms of malaria. The plateau was full of semi-stagnant ponds where mosquitoes bred and rose in clouds...
...automatically damned in the eyes of many by its title. It is undeniably another of those "popular" explanations of the depression; but it attacks the problem in considerably more adequate a manner than most of its predecessors. The point of view is far from radical; however, it is not stagnant and reactionary, but constructively conservative. The ideas are often the modern parallel of those in Burke's "Letter on the French Revolution," and as such constitute an intellectual pure decidedly needed by some of the Economic theorizers...
...State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
...indeed admirable. A few other instructors have realized advantages of such a method, but the great majority of lecturers in academic courses still insist on reviewing the facts of the course at each meeting. These men would do well to take their cue from Professor Greenough and replace stagnant repetition of facts with enlightening commentary on background and personalities...
...current Congressional measure proposing material enlargement of the presidential powers on expenditure is meeting the predicted opposition of large blocs in both houses. Republican leaders fear that a dictatorship is imminent, and prefer the stagnant multiplicity which has already been so effective in impeding fiscal adjustment...