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...present the industries of the country are a leaning tower. Statesmanship must give them a broader base upon the soil!" Winding up his speech with a twit at the higher tariff schemes with which so many British statesmen are now toying, both in England and overseas (see Canada), stanch free-trader Lloyd George concluded wittily: "A drowning man should not clutch at straws-or at sharks! No doubt many capitalists would make larger profits out of the new system of tariffs, but we have got to think of the 45,000,000 people who have got to live. Therefore, look...
...Papal newsorgan Osservatore Romano thought he had news nearly as big. Just arrived was a communication from Jean Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris (TIME, Dec. 2). Joyously the prelate reported that he had just had audience with the President of France, M. Gaston ("Gastou-net") Doumergue, stanch Protestant, who said (said the Cardinal): "Your Eminence is a representative among us of that immense moral force, the Catholic Church. Do not hesitate to act freely. The anticlericalism manifested in France is only superficial. We are a great Catholic nation and such we should remain!" No sooner was Osservatore Romano...
Part-Time v. Full-Time. Said Lord Eustace Percy, president of the section, president of the British Board of Education (1924-29), stanch supporter of the League of Nations...
...Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned him of impending crisis in the securities' markets. In 1909 he arranged to buy Ford Motor Co. for $8,000,000 but his bankers were afraid. He is a stanch Presbyterian, stanch Republican. He shuns jewelry but is famed for his tremendous long-distance telephone bills. Wherever he goes he carries a set of checkers. Said the Paris Comet of him last year: "He has served both God and Mammon without ever being able to distinguish which was which...
Rumanian Prime Minister Maniu as the stanch ally of France, which is violently opposed to any Habsburg restoration, buttressed his original announcement with these ominous words...