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...Donald's agitation is just a symptom of the ants of conscience in his pants...
...police chiefs and social workers, but to such tail-coated Republicans as onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Like other Presidents before him, Mr. Roosevelt cried for national cooperation in a national war against the underworld, declared: "Crime is a symptom of social disorder. Widespread increase in capacity to substitute order for disorder is the remedy...
...Louis (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933, et ante). Last week he was working on the serology of the strangest of the St. Louis sleeping sickness cases when, too ill to continue, he went to the Naval Hospital in Washington. Neither he nor his colleagues know what is wrong. Most striking symptom was a rash down both his sides; most terrifying, the irrationality into which he occasionally lapsed. In his rational periods he feared that his condition might be the irremediable after effect of sleeping sickness picked up in St. Louis...
Senator Borah's recent warning that a naval race will cause war states only half the problem, for the struggle for superiority in arms is a symptom of more fundamental animosities. It is true, as the Senator laments, that the impending renunciation of treaty restrictions gives the lie to the professions of pacifism which our diplomats bandy about, but those paper limitations, so readily abandoned, are rather a confession of intent to give battle than a statement of Christian generosity. The signatories, like mutually mistrustful urchins, concede one another a theoretically equal start, but tacitly confess the possibility of hostilities...
...gold and dollar exchange necessary to effect a complete transfer of interest payments now, she most certainly has not enough of either to meet her short and long term capital obligations as these fall due in the future. The present partial default on interest payments in merely a symptom of the folly of an impossible tariff and its incompatibility with payment-in-full to creditors in Wichita and Kalamazoo, especially when its ill-effects are aggravated by inflation...