21 NOVEMBER 1931, page 39

Of Course, What Was Really Happening Was Simply "...

We were all just being " inflated," and we didn't know it. The merry banker who shoved a hundred sovereigns across the counter, in that pleasant way he had, why he was just......

So Depression Came; First Here And Then There And In

little bits. Soniebody staggered home from a lobster luncheon and lay down flat and murmured, " I'm depressed." People on tip-toe moved about him. " He's depressed," they......

Things Certainly Moved ! Of Course, The Gaols Were Full

; but a new cry had gone out for " sunlight in every cell," and so the gaols were big, and bright with jazz music pouring out of every window, and with burglars telling the......

That Was It. All The Brightness ; All The Laughter

and the merriment of the present ; the fond hopes for the future ; the fortunes that seemed assured ; the old age so comfortably provided for : so that was all it was, just......

Inflation And Deflation .

BY STEPHEN LEACOCIU A LITTLE while ago—just after the War ended, wasn't it ?—everybody was absorbed in the idea of making things •"'bigger and • brighter." Thera was a movement'......