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...available, the Government must, has and will continue to do so. Since January when credit expansion began. Government borrowing and spending has increased bank deposits 15%. In time the cumulative effect of Government borrowing and spending will pile deposits so high that private initiative will regain courage. Then the virtuous circle will gather speed just as contracting credit speeds the vicious circle of deflation...
During his stay in China the devout were shocked to learn that His Holiness is no ascetic. Though Tibetan Lamas consider it virtuous to go hungry and a sin to eat flesh or fish, the Panchen Lama feasted regularly in Nanking on chicken, beef, mutton and those expensive Chinese delicacies, sharks' fins and hot sea slugs...
Senators and Representatives last week felt comparatively virtuous. Other Congresses generally provided their members with topics for investigation which necessitated junkets to Alaska, Europe and other desirable summer resorts. But members of the 73rd Congress are staying within the U. S. to tend their political fences so that next January they may find themselves members of the 74th legislative & inquisitorial Congress...
...Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission. They struck their white flag and up amid huzzas went the bright gold, blue and red of Colombia. "Contact!" cried the pilot and the tri-motor roared...
...Henry VIII" the scholar complained that political significance was abandoned for the more intimate personal relationships of the great, the personalities of the present film are presented in a fashion that ably combines the human interest with the political. But just as Maxwell Anderson recently gave a more virtuous character to the heroine of his "Mary of Scotland" than history allows, so has Elizabeth Bergnor's Catherine been blessed with an unbelievable holiness of purpose, that is inconsistent with even her eighteenth-century enlightened despotism. There is no point in begrudging the historical dramatist his literary liberties, for "Catherine...