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Five-Year Plan. Quoting official Soviet statistics, Comrade Bron shows in his book that the Five-Year Plan, now in its second year, has more than attained its industrial objectives, has fallen somewhat short in persuading the stubborn Russian peasant to plant as much seed as the Government wishes, to sell it at the price fixed by the Government, and to espouse with proper enthusiasm the Government's program of "collective farms" (TIME. Oct. 21, et seq.). Nevertheless 10,530,000 acres are now under collective cultivation...
Three factors have made private power companies unpopular with a Senate majority: 1) their extensive anonymous propaganda against Government operation, as revealed by the Federal Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes...
This criticism agrees exactly with conclusions reached by the MacDonald Government's Trade Mission to South America (TIME, Sept. 23), which has issued a report flaying English manufacturers as too stupid and stubborn to make what South Americans want to buy, and secondly flaying English diplomats as too stiff, superior, condescending and ungracious to be of any use in promoting trade. When this report was about to be issued the office of a worldwide press agency in London received advance copies in time to mail them to South America before the release date, but were absolutely forbidden to mail...
...hope of effecting contact with her husband, that his attempt to Houdinize-himself from the (a) spirit world has been a failure, that this is another proof that Spiritualism is all fakery. Spiritualists retorted that it proved nothing. Some even charged that Houdini's spirit is being stubborn...
Having shut Captain Stone of M. I. T. from a possible second place by injuries inflicted in the bout, Solano added another fall to his list of eight consecutive tumbles for the season. Although outclassed by the Crimson wrestler, Stone showed a stubborn resistance...