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This speech did not ask France to give Italy anything. It just happened to get interrupted by the whole Chamber, led by the two well-chosen scream-leaders. When screaming and speech were finished, the French Ambassador put on his top hat, adjusted his elegant monocle, and, smiling, drove away...
...England this has been standard practice for 20 years and has been generally successful, since well-chosen issues become "sticky" not because they are unsound investments but only because of sudden market upsets. A good U. S. example was last fall's Pure Oil issue, a sound enough investment which failed to sell because of a market crash. If its underwriters had been an investment trust they could have added the unsold bonds to their portfolio, thus saving their own skins and not impairing the investment trust...
...whose 845-page biography is published this week, makes it plain that Franklin was a great man, a notable scientist, a superb diplomat, an enterprising printer. But when Franklin as a human being, with his quirks and oddities, emerges from these close-packed pages, it is usually in the well-chosen quotations from Franklin's Autobiography...
...east and west coasts of the U. S.-a discovery whose exact scientific importance escapes the lay reader-it quickly gives way to discussions of Mr. Beebe's first deep-sea fishing, a comparison of the flight of pelicans and cormorants, a spirited defense of vultures and well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these, Dr. L. H. Matthews' description of the mating habits of the albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around...
...once in 1,400 well-chosen words, addressed to the Mexican Ambassador, Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Nájera, did Secretary Hull so much as mention oil wells, gold mines or vast ranches. Experts of the State Department had supplied figures on Mexican expropriations of small farm holdings as far back as 1915. But before he mentioned even these, Secretary Hull went into a juicy preamble about the sympathy of aims existing between President Cárdenas' new deal for Mexico and President Roosevelt's New Deal for the U. S.: "The issue is not whether Mexico should...