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This fall the Literary Digest has conducted a second and smaller vote to see if the summer's industrial unrest has changed public opinion. According to this follow-up poll, which has not been attempted in any of the colleges, the nation as a whole still supports President Roosevelt, but by a much smaller margin than formerly...
...Army made odd alliance three years ago with Japan's Depression-ridden farmers, whose sons happen to fill the Army ranks. Farmers and officers, both poor and oldfashioned, unite in hating all that Westernization has brought Japan except the guns. They hate democracy, free capitalism, politics, graft, social unrest. Without claiming to know much about economics, they feel that Japan could have both low taxes for farmers and a huge defense budget. Let the Emperor bleed the capitalists! Last week with conspiratorial secrecy, the officers rushed through the Government presses 160,000 copies of a pamphlet entitled The Basic...
...remarked diplomatically. But: "Today no business is willing to spend a dollar except for immediate requirements. Those of us in the steel business cannot blame our customers, for we feel the same way ourselves." His reasons: 1) fear for the profit system, 2) the Securities Act, 3) labor unrest, and 4) "I want to know what the Government is going to do with my dollar...
...personally as fascinating as ever: humorous, egotistically amusing, naively entertaining. But he does not have the background to work with or the experiences to tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize...
...company was doing, he had to take pad & pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that no one could understand it. From Sir Douglas' grudging remarks, a stockholder usually gathered the impression that, what with rising taxes and general social unrest, the outlook for the sewing machine business was practically hopeless. Yet for years Singer profits ranged between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 annually. The stock, traded inactively on the New York Curb, sold as high as $631 per share (last week's price: $185), and dividends ranged as high...