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the 4th of March, 1861, THE DUCE'S HEADQUARTERS Benjamin Gannett of Sharon.

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WALL STREET MUST BOOM

GENUINE RECOVERY

PENDING

THE ROARING INTOXICATION OF

AMERICAN OPTIMISM

(By Collin Brooks)

all the portents Wall Street, Napoleon said that in war the

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ably discharged in November 1788 Although he is Foreign Minis- having successfully masqueraded as ter the Duce seldom uses the Pa-D a youthful saidies, under the as-lazzo Chigi, the offical Italian is on the verse of the big-moral is to the material as three- Sumed name of Robert Shurtleff Foreign Office, but receives his gest boom in its history. Big to one. In stock market progress Then shortly after mastering out visitors at the Palazzo Venezia. fortunes will be made there in the; the psychological is to the ma Hong Kong, Friday, dampary 10, 1936 of the service, she was married to A visitor with an appointment immediate future.

terial in about the same pr Benjamin Gannett, with whom she is taken to a waiting-room After! First, let us examine the cause tion. Hived until her death in 1827.a few minutes he is conducted to or the halt in the upward move- Harassed Europe The Hoover Platform Thereafter the widower applied Signor Mussolini's room.

{ment seen in early December

Europe-is-harassed, apprehen for and was granted the pension

America believes that European sive, and uncertain. It will re Amongst the various ways in for her service in the army. DIAGONAL APPROACH"

peace is precations For men same the pouring of money into which political practice has

months European money, includ-America, there to be

safe and modified the American Consti- our Daily Smile!lapsed it became the Embassy of ing into New York.

When the Serene Republic col-jing English money, has been pour-make good returns. tution is the development of the

Britain, gilvedged Its conquerors, the Austrians. When there is acute anxiety leading industrials already show custom that a President shall

be in

The Austrians had it up to stand as candidate for a second

the when war or an economic crisis skimp dividend returns and seem "Your, bors" the teacher queried. Great War, when it was confs-threatens, people may have sudden to term, but not for a third. "The "after what I have explained of thecated. A few years ago it be need for liquid cash at home. It further improvement. Many peo have discounted immediate fathers of the Republic meant hen's fierceness, strength, and der- to confer upon the President ing, can anyone of you name a single came the Duce's headquarters. was in 1931 that this need, as itjple will grow tired of starvation for the time being all the animal that the king of beasts stands

The visitor enters by the door was felt in foreign capitals, pre-yields and the fear of capital loss; in awe of

on the left of the picture. He cipitated Britain's own crisis. powers that were constitution-

|and will also turn to America for Ip shot

little

Willie's hand marches diagonally across the ally supposed to be wielded by "Well the teacher asked, which is room with what unless he wear by European holders to provide In the United States the nation

It is because the sale of stocks profits. King George III, but any ter-the animal”” dency towards autocracy was to We (promptly): "Please, teach rubber soles seems an intermin-liquid cash at home is feared, that is again growing stock market

Wall Street did, for the time be-minded" be held in check by the limita-, the lioness

During the 1928-29- When he is about three yardsting, halt its pace... tion that he should only be ani

boom everybody, from the shoe- Speed On elected king for four years,

Jaway the Duce looks up from his But this factor is temporary.black to the millionaire, was 盘 "Going to a fire?" asked the traffic papers. When he is a yard away All other factors press American stock market panter. The slump when his power should pass to officer sarcastically to the speeding the Duce stands up to greet him stock prices upwards. The United caused both a lack of means and locher hands. The new man motorist.

would have the power to correct | "W-well, not exactly," answered According to the importance of States is out of the trough of its a lack of nerve. any mistakes that had been the motorist. Just trying to pre- the visitor be either shakes hands great depression-

rent one." made.

across the desk or comes round it "Yes, and how were you going to to do so. The actual working of the co that"

"Well, the boss said that's what system has been widely differ- he'd do I were late again, and TIDY DESK ent. The first divergence was was hurrying to get to the office in caused by the fact that in those time.” days of very slight personal contact with England the con

а Golfer: "Can you let me have stitution makers, led by Alexan- der Hamilton, reted much too caddie who doesn't giggie confidently

the printed Caddie Master: "Well, there's old word With the possible ex-Mack over there, hasz't smiled for ception of Walter Bagehot in 40 years but of course, I can't (recent times, no writer has been guarantee him?”

10.

time

Not So Sure:

able to avoid undue simplifica-The phrasing is intentionally

able clatter.

The reduction in unemployment and the growing volume of busi- ness activity are restoring the means; and the nerve to plunge is showing itself again.

American Temperament

Higher Levels A weekly index of business activity (incorporating all the big |industries; car÷cadings, the pri The Duce's desk is very tidy mary commodities, and finance) unlike that of Primo de Rivera,shows that by

The temperament of the Ameri- the middle for instance, which was always November the level was higher that of the British America has can people is vastly different from the littered with papers, among which than in 1931. By quick stages the been bred on a philosophy of "get- he never seemed to be able to find levels of 1934, 1933, 1932 and 1931 rich-quick" and an assurance that what he wanted.

have been crossed in this upward God's Own Country is the weal Its most prominent feature is almovement. large glass of milk from which

thiest and the most enterprising Orders from motor manufac-in the world. the Duce sips from time to time turers, can fabricators, railroads,

The normal interview lasts and Governmental agencies have greatest major slump in the n

The Hoover slump was the tion in writing of the "govern-vague, and programme very in-about half an hour. Signor now carried US steel production tion's history, and the nation is ance" of England, which is not clusive. A stranger would Mussolini is very interested he to a new high level for 1935. quite the same thing as "gor have much more miniculty than will extend it by another 15 Road projects, forg delayed, are what it commands in the way of ernment." Hamilton was a resident in knowing which of minutes. To English visitors he now being launched. Electric natural resources and trade ad- guided almost necessarily by the items were to be stressed talks English, his command of power output has been making antages. Confidence is re-esta the main principle of all legists and which were put in for the which is steadily improving. successive new records. Ten blished. that the nitimate authority to benefit of the mugwump. Up For the first-quarter of an hour leading makers of industrial deal with any matter must rest to the last few years, as com- he invites questions.

For the trucks have reported the best temperament, the temperament of with some particular man, and pared with England, he would second he asks questions in re-October shipments for over three the pioneers and the River gam that by a study of books and note in the speakers at the turn-about the visitor's country years. These are symptoms of blers, there is no half-way house documents it is possible to find meetings a marked lack of per-or his special interests.

genuine business recovery.. out who he is. That this is an sonal assertion. An American Very rarely he accompanies his

Optimism, when it shows, showr It is this kind of business as a roaring intoxication. incomplete theory has been re-who had listened to a speech by visitor to the door, though an old which gives a sound base to any

If once the nation foods the

now beginning to remember again

With the traditional American

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this year has been founded.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

given to the Indian Princes then Lord Hartington com-of a dictatorial arm round his such business the infant boom of "to the limit when-they saw in plain printmented: "Our people would not shoulders. the various powers that rest stand being talked to like that within the Royal Prerogative as He was telling them they were exercised through the Viceroy.wrong, and they seemed to like They imagined that they were it? So far only the Trades being tricked The fact was Union candidates seem to re that many of the powers had gard themselves as bound to a seldom or never been exercised, programme, and they are none and then only or the advice the more popular

that of competent authorities who account. were not mentioned in the legal President Hoover's

maxim formula.

that in a world struggling As Mr. Macnamara pointed against the forces of disruption out last month to the English we have a high duty to keep Association. the immense America American” will appeal powers conferred on the Presi-to large sections of people who [dent were derived from Black-have been taught at school the stone, whose "Commentaries on infallibility of the Constitution, the Laws of England" had im-and who infer from recent deci- mensely more authority with signs that the Roosevelt the public as the first attempt|Administration has been at to make logic out of a mass of tempting to undermine it. On traditions than it ever had with the other hand it is to be sup great judges like Lord Mans-posed that the Democrats are Seld To take but one in-vowed to use the machinery of stance of involuntary misrepre- the Federal Government to re-i sentation, Blackstone took no galate industry and agriculture, account of the Cabinet, which since the attempt to get iden- was the real governing body-tical laws passed by all the Only for a short time, with States would be so slow and disastrous results, did King laborious as not to be practical George really get control, and politics at all. If the New Deal] that was through the party in is the embodiment of a genuine the House of Commons wito political faith there is no alter- were called the "King's men frative to a campaign with the In the same way the object of inaking Federal re- struggles for power have made gulation legal. In that case wet a fiction of the idea of the four-shall have a fight on a clear-cut year monarch. Only perhaps issue of the utmost importance, for his first year ea a Presi-and it will be watched by all the dent play a lone hand: At any other nations very keenly. rate in the third year the The issue behind it will be shadow of the next election imply this: Can the capitalis

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