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...faith which will carry it to great heights is as lacking in penetration as are his opinions on economics. What the new faith is it would be hard to say. The younger generation is not turning again to religion, Mr. Lindley thinks. It has not even accepted the stop-gap of humanism. For the young man of today is "amoral." Mr. Lindley speaks hopefully of this amorality with a fine disregard for the fact that the term "amoral" can have no meaning at all (unless it means immoral) for anyone to whom the word moral has a real meaning...
...Senate dawdled through its second week without electing New Hampshire's Moses or anyone else President pro termpore. As a stop-gap it took up a bill by Connecticut's Walcott to "insure adequate supplies of wild life, plant and animal, including forests, fish and game for the people of the U. S.," passing it as its first concrete achievement this session. At the request of California's Johnson it asked the State Department to disgorge all diplomatic data on the Manchurian situation and then unanimously called for another investigation of food prices. In an off moment...
...read)'' cash of late by methods peculiar to governments. The last balance sheet of the Austrian National Bank showed an increase in Austrian note circulation of 16% in one week and the discounted bills had increased by some $30,000,000. These emergency measures were taken, admittedly, as a stop-gap means of saving Kreditanstalt until permanent measures could be taken. Day after desperate day frightened depositors swarmed around the threatened institution, talked earnestly with each other and with officials who worked overtime reassuring the public. Every depositor who refused to be reassured got his money, but the currency...
Head of the new government, a stop-gap affair patched up in Lima until Arequipa could be heard from, was, last week, Chief Justice Ricardo Leoncio Elias of Peru's Supreme Court. So devoid of ambition is Col. Sanchez Cerro that less than a month ago he announced that "by unanimous solicitation of the people" he would be the only candidate at Peru's next presidential election...
...Christmas Day, for contributions to relieve the miners.* Since His Royal Highness spoke more than ?320,000 ($1,555,000) directly elicited by his words has poured in. For every pound Sterling contributed the Treasury stands pledged by Parliament to contribute a matching pound. Even with all this stop-gap and state charity, however, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin seems impotent to devise a constructive scheme which will really stem the tide of unemployment...