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...poor." [Applause] Neutrality. Because U. S. peace lovers have, within the past year, whipped up the question of U. S. neutrality in a dark and dangerous world to the first legislative rank (see p. 11), all ears pricked up in solemn attention when the President came to this ticklish problem. Said he: "First, we decline to encourage the prosecution of war by permitting belligerents to obtain arms, ammunition or implements of war from the United States; second, we seek to discourage the use by belligerent nations of any and all American products calculated to facilitate the prosecution...
Beetling behind a big red fan of beard, Denmark's huge Social Democratic Premier Thorvald A. M. Stauning has sailed his little country handsomely, since the spring of 1929, through fair weather & foul. Most ticklish stretch came after Britain, to whom Danish farmers sell most of their eggs and butter, cheapened the pound (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Premier Stauning sensibly cheapened Denmark's krone proportionately in step with the pound. Results were so good that thrifty Danish exporters of dairy products began to think results would be better if the krone were devalued not merely down...
...tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed and lively as any youngster, joining gaily in such Metropolitan pranks as tickling fat Tenor Lauritz Melchior in Parsifal. "He is so ticklish! So he always says, 'Please, ladies. Do not! I am so ticklish!' It's great fun at the rehearsals...
...conjunction occurred on an omnibus banking bill which the Virginian and a Senate Banking & Currency sub-committee spent more than two months working over. When the measure was unanimously reported to the Senate last week, all hands agreed that a neat job of compromise had been executed on the ticklish issue of centralizing the U. S. Banking System under White House (i. e. political) control. The Senate bill will centralize bank credit but not under direct political control...
Just ahead a subway train had broken down. "P. G." decided that since it must be pushed to the next station by the train he was driving, he would stay at the motorman's post and do the pushing, a feat mildly ticklish. With undergroundmen, including Lord Ashfield, perspiring profusely, "P. G." pushed successfully. "I assure you, Sir," cried flustered Lord Ashfield as they alighted, "that the breakdown experience you have had is one which one of our drivers might not encounter in a lifetime...