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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more goods on hand when the current depression began than they did shortly after th crash in 1929. These figures were presented to President Roosevelt last week as a refutation of the contention of businessmen that fear of New Deal oppression caused the present slump. When a corporation is uncertain about the future, the argument ran, it does not stock up heavily with materials and supplies. Inference was that the 1937 slump was caused not by fear but by overconfidence. Since business economists have generally held that 1937 was not marked by excess inventories, the Government's conclusions...
...rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington, reporters asked him about such criticism as that of New Jersey's Robert W. Johnson (medical supplies). In no uncertain terms Mr. Johnson had called for the withdrawal from party councils of Herbert Hoover, Alf M. Landon, and John D. M. Hamilton. Reddening, Mr. Hamilton replied: "No one has the right to read me or anyone else out of the party...
...loves to be lectured. For no years it has been paying countless U. S. and British writers to exhort, educate and berate it. It all started in 1826, when Josiah Holbrook of Connecticut and the lyceum movement began the long, uncomfortable cross-country trips of uncertain financial return and doubtful educational value that have come to be known as lecture tours...
...writers whose income from books is uncertain and fluctuating, lecturing is still what it was in Emerson's day: a profitable sideline. But rates have changed since Emerson was glad to speak for $5 and oats for his horse. Last month H. G. Wells spoke seven times, made $21,000. Next spring Thomas Mann will get $15,000 for his 15 lectures. For the 23 lectures on Sinclair Lewis' crowded schedule, he will get $23,000. Although their agent makes the rates of such headliners as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Aldous Huxley a carefully guarded secret, their...
...long on the sad state of trade would have been no gesture of friendship to the New Deal which has the slump already too much with it. Therefore, the topic of most concern to businessmen was little touched on publicly. One man, however, raised the doleful subject in no uncertain terms: Virgil Jordan, president of the fact-finding National Industrial Conference Board. He declared...