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...general staff of the forces of hell, but they are a general staff without an army. . . . I have even heard some people talk about what they call a preventive war with one camp trying to strike against the other before that other camp is adequately prepared. It is the stupidest of all follies to imagine that an injustice can be wiped out by committing an international crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FIDAC & CIAMAC | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...Stupidest move of the MacDonald campaign were the arrangements for his speech at Seaham colliery. If Schoolmaster Coxon had still been the Prime Minister's campaign manager instead of his opponent he never would have allowed Scot MacDonald to make a speech the very day that unemployed miners were drawing their reduced dole. He never would have chosen as a meeting place the same hall that had just been used as a dole pay office. Black-faced miners drew their pittances and cursed while unconscious campaign workers tacked MacDonald posters up under their noses. Fortunately there was no rioting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Seaham | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Last week England's noted elder economist Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon, who was her Ambassador to Germany directly after the War, spoke up, as more active financiers cannot very well do. Said he: "This depression is the stupidest and most gratuitous in history!" All the existing essential circumstances "except monetary wisdom," he declared, favor a return to prosperity and well being. Gold is the thing about which 1930 was stupid, about which 1931 must be wise. "The explanation of our anomalous situation," declared Lord d'Abernon, "is that the machinery for handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: D'Abernon On Gold | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Into the career of Miss Davies, stupidest member of the Floradora sextette, comes a gay dog who means her no good, but who realizes his true love for her when she resists his advances after a cold bottle and a warm bird. Lawrence Gray, the male lead, plays his part with proper seriousness and the rest of the cast have been persuaded somehow to conceal their consciousness of the text's value as burlesque. It is a good cast, but Miss Davies, probably the most skillful comedienne in pictures, lovely in her trailing gowns, is better than the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Britain, the party which will come into government at the next elections will be more inclined towards disarmament," Mr. Smith predicted. "But they should not trust naval experts to settle the question. The stupidest thing done at the Coolidge conference was the trust which was put in the naval experts. Quarrels on party; quarrels on guns, on cruisers,--why, what else is to be expected of naval experts anyway? The naval expert is paid to look after his navy. When he does not do that, he deserves the go-by. What does he know about limitation and reduction of armaments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval Disarmament a World-Wide Question, Says Rennie Smith, M. P.--Should Rely on Statesmen, Not on Experts | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

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