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...good when he left Washington that he jested with newshawks: "If you print my thoughts on economic subjects some Columbia professor will say I'm crazy." Dr. Schacht was not only agreeable to a tariff truce but also favored a general reduction of tariff levels by all powers. Uppermost in his mind, however, was to gain President Roosevelt's moral support for revision of the Versailles Treaty. Such support the President carefully withheld. When Dr. Le Breton left the White House it became known that he and President Roosevelt had started negotiations for a trade agreement which...
...must be aggressive leadership which vigorously sets forth definite policies, and works for their enactment. The other depends upon Congress itself. That body must realize that perhaps its very existence depends upon whether it succeeds in the speedy passage of intelligent legislation. If it works with this thought uppermost in its mind, it will survive the technical emergency which these times have produced. Otherwise the threat of dictatorship hovers ever closer...
Twice a year, on New Year's and on King George's birthday, good Britons are rewarded by their sovereign with titles, promotions, ribbons, For at least five years British art dealers have awaited the honors lists with one question uppermost: Would Sir Joseph Duveen, Britain's best known art dealer, finally get his peerage? Sir Joseph, head factor of the firm of Duveen Bros, of Paris, London & New York, has done much to earn himself the honor. He has been lavish with gifts to the British Museum and the Tate Gallery. When young British artists accused...
Perhaps the most difficult among which held against the attempt to ratify the League Covenant in America was the provision setting up armed sanctions against nations who violated the peace. With the late mistaken venture into the morasses of European diplomacy and politics still uppermost in their memories, the American people were taken with a fever of isolationism. They shrank quite excusably from any agreement that might result in more bloodshed for themselves or for their sons. Later interpretation, especially from the British government, drew the offending claws from the Government, but the question of sanctions is still paramount...
...height of the season even in Boston; it is to display a most quibbling quiddity to remark that the twenty love-sick maidens of the Civic Light Opera Company are but sixteen, or that the choruses might conceivably be better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient. Mr. Joseph Macaulay makes, ah, a very Narcissus in the velveteens of Archibald the All-Right...