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...besides the fact that he was by all odds the funniest-looking man in the Administration ? was that by his personal popularity he softened the New Deal's animus towards bankers and vice versa. A second greater significance was that he acted as a shock absorber be tween the banking system and the Administration, pressing for sound finance, yielding to the extraordinary fiscal demands of a powerful President. One by one, Governor Black saw the important functions of the Reserve System taken away ? its control of the currency, its control of credit. Future financiers will know whether...
Quick to seize the similarity between the MacMonnies affair and the budding Manship incident, the tabloid Daily Mirror printed an imaginary conversation be tween the two sculptors' statues, head lined it "PROMETHEUS" BIG SISSY TO "CIVIC VIRTUE," promised to run further news of the "amazing wrangle...
...close of the interview President Kalinin grinned broadly when asked whether President Roosevelt, by insisting that Russia reaffirm the religious rights of foreigners in the Soviet Union, had paved the way for a rapprochement be tween Moscow and the Vatican. "About that," he twinkled, "I do not want to make propaganda." With asperity in Vatican City the Papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano last week declared that Comrade Litvinoff's pledges to President Roosevelt on the freedom of religious practice in U. S. S. R. are not only worthless but "clearly mean ingless...
...such gifts are made under the Brit ish Parliament's Government of Ireland Act of 1920. Last week came another. Quietly at Belfast, because relations be tween the Mother Country and the Free State are now very tense, there were opened last week the magnificent Royal Courts of Justice which involved a pres ent to Northern Ireland of more than
...make a building termite-proof costs only $50 to $100 during construction, may run from $500 to $2,000 afterwards. Timbers should be treated with insecticide, a metal sheet or other barrier placed be tween ground and wood. This bars out insects in the ground, kills those already in the wood by keeping them away from ground moisture. Foundation timbers, basement walls and flooring should be kept dry. Hating light, termites build mud-covered runways up concrete foundation walls. Lately some builders, believing the insects will not cross them, have used glass bricks to top their walls...