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...formal resolution Congress last spring asked that question of Joseph Bartlett Eastman, radically brilliant Interstate Commerce Commissioner whom President Roosevelt made Federal Coordinator of Transportation and his alter ego on all rail matters. Last week Coordinator Eastman answered the question in a 350-page report, the core of which was: "Theoretically and logically public ownership and operation meet the known ills of the present situation better than any other remedy." But: "I am not now prepared to recommend . . . public ownership and operation . . . for the principal reason that the country is not now financially in a condition to stand the strain...
...money changers," Mr. Warburg said: "The first time I heard this phrase was when it fell from the lips of the President in his Inaugural Address. I did not like it then. . . . What is a money changer? If it is one who desired to change money, that is to alter money, then I wonder which one of us four is the greatest money changer. ... I can see that the good Senator does not accept my definition. Can it be that his is the scriptural definition? . . He [the money changer] was thrown out of the Temple not because his business...
...fact that I was fined ?25," boomed Atholl, "does not alter the fact that millions of pounds are lost every year to British charity through the acts of those who are openly disloyal to the King through patronizing the Irish [Free State hospitals] sweepstakes...
...that the requirements of the Act have prevented the flotation of any but the most shady new issues, nevertheless its general effect has been to throw one more unnecessary shiver into the already tremulous limbs of the banking fraternity. And now Roosevelt has advised that revisions be made to alter the psychological impasse thus created by removing much of the stringency attached to the administration of the Act. If this tactical retreat does not achieve the end it seeks--the inducement of more credit into active employment--then the bankers may shiver the more and with better reason...
...Morgan could pay his respects, too. This week the steel industry completes the 90-day trial period stipulated by Steel's NRA code. Had they wished, the nation's steelmasters could have asked for a rehearing on their code, could have tried to get the Government to alter their wage, hour and marketing agreements...