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Sheer Confidence. Thus, on price policy, van Zeeland took a position opposite to President Roosevelt's. He announced nothing resembling the NRA, and headlines about NEW DEAL FOR BELGIUM could be charged off as oversimplified tosh. Chief effect of the European currency misgivings produced by Belgium's devaluation was to give a fillip to the notion that "Sterling is the best money," and Sterling soared against other currencies, gold and paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen...
...science in war is absurdly overrated," wound up Scientist Levinstein, who is considered the Empire's leading expert on war gases. "One might imagine that invention had rendered it possible to destroy a city and wipe out humanity in mass, as it were, by pressing a button. Tosh...
Those who know Commissioner Mackin tosh were not surprised at the commotion his challenge stirred up. He first proved himself an eminent disturber when he at tended the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920 as a delegate from the State of Washington. Primary voters had instructed him to support the presi dential candidacy of Senator Hiram John son of California. Disregarding his politi cal pledges, he boldly boomed Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for the Presidency. It was largely on the strength of his agitation that Governor Coolidge was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. President Coolidge later rewarded...
...TIME, usually accurate, gullibly repeats the tosh about Jehovah and the Continental Congress. Shall we look forward to the cherry tree tale next Washington's birthday...
Solemnly before these most astute and potent moulders of opinion, Viscount Reading came out in unqualified endorsement of the Lloyd George scheme for putting Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed to work on roads and public buildings?a scheme widely denounced as impractical, impossible, vote-getting tosh (TIME, April 1). "I consider these proposals a brilliant and workable means," said Rufus Daniel Isaacs, "of making an end of a canker that has been eating into the nation's heart...