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...gold producers $31.36 an oz. for their product. Later in the week the R.F.C. bid as high as $31.96. Theoretically, the dollar should have fallen to 64.96?. Actually, on the world market, it only fell to 67.78?, which to the President & advisers was disconcerting. Worst of all, from the standpoint of an inflating President, the dollar's commodity value, as revealed by the Department of Labor's wholesale price index, was way up at $1.42, a rise of 1½? from the week before. To squash the dollar down toward the 1926 commodity value of 100?, President Roosevelt...
...means an inspired critic; but by treating his subject from a single point of view, without deviation, he builds up an imposing structure, perfectly logical, perfectly convincing--provided one accepts his major premise, that no American author can write adequately unless he interprets the American scene from the standpoint of the proletarian oppressed by a capitalist society. Throughout the book Mr. Hicks reasons from this premise, not toward it. That literature can have any other attributes which gives it a right to live he will not admit. Consequently Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Eugene O'Neill...
Last night the aboriginal inhabitants of Cambridge and the nerveless Freshmen of Wigglesworth Hall had the somewhat dubious pleasure of hearing a highly vocal NRA demonstration. From the standpoint of noise produced it was a roaring--not to say deafening--success, and the inclusion of the bands...
Bendiner & Schlesinger, Inc. which have been established since 1843, and have been doing one of the largest medicinal spirit businesses in the East all during Prohibition. Also, their analytical laboratory has lent their help and aid in analyzing spirits from the toxicological standpoint. Bendiner & Schlesinger, Inc. have secured the much sought after agency of Berry Bros, of London, who have been established since the XVII century as wine merchants, and at the present time are acting as wine merchants to the royal household of England. They produce such well known brands as "Cutty Sark" and "St. James's Blend...
...opponent!" "I, together with all my followers, de-cline." he cried, "to conquer the people of a strange nation-who would not love us anyway. . . . "German youth is marching . . . not to demonstrate against France, but to evince that political determination . . . necessary for throwing down Communism!" Significance. From a domestic standpoint President von Hindenburg's dissolution of the Diets of all the German States was of immense importance, for the Government coolly indicated that no elections for new Diets will be held. Thus local parliamentary Government was abolished throughout Germany at one stroke last week, and the Nazi Party crushed...