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...Especial attention should be given to the American tariff of June, 1930--an act of almost incredible economic folly. Unlike some recent foreign tariff changes, revision of our tariff was not needed either to protect our exchanges from depreciation or to guard our gold sup plies from depletion. On the contrary, the tariff law was passed when we possessed approximately 40 per cent of the world's monetary gold and when, as has been said, we were attracting large additional amounts...
...Dominion, the Irish Free State, was being granted too much freedom, although the House was only ratifying a decision already made by two Imperial Conferences of British Premiers (1926 & 1930). Paradoxically the official Labor Opposition, led by old George Lansbury, bolted to support the Government, since Labor has always sup ported a policy of granting the Dominions all possible freedom...
...First Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, of which he is Colonel-in-Chief, last week. With buttons shined and a large sabre strapped to waist, he handed newly embroidered standards to two kneeling subalterns while the drums rolled. After these ceremonies he adjourned to the Town Hall to sup oysters at Colchester's annual Oyster Feast...
...stage play by Robert Emmet Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving that its sentimentalities would be more effective if they were subdued, disguised them carefully and was terse in scenes which might have been heavily dramatic. Director Whale is sup posed to be the quietest megaphone artist in Hollywood. A onetime playwright and stage director, he seldom interrupts his actors or leaves his chair to show them what to do. His sedentary technique must have been particularly practical for Waterloo Bridge since he had an expert cast whose major deficiency...
...relief plan to which he could point in a national campaign. His was the first program to be inaugurated by a State for the winter emergency. It might well become a model for other Legislatures, including the national one at Washington. Governor Roosevelt had devised a formula of sup plying relief and still dodging the dole. Important was the political philosophy he put into his message to the Legislature. It had undertones which might well be come the main motif in 1932. Some excerpts...