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...with a new situation. Whether the failure of investment to keep pace with the general upswing has been due to calculated sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...
...opinion, Roosevelt is neither a revolutionist nor is he making a revolution. He is trying to preserve capitalism, not destroy it. "If Roosevelt goes as far to the left as I hope he will and as some of his advisers urge, he will eventually attain something like state socialism...
...Compliance Board. If it cannot settle the case it goes to General Johnson, who can turn it over for prosecution to the Attorney General or to the Federal Trade Commission. "The district compliance director," General Johnson cautioned his new organization, "must bear in mind that his function is to attain compliance by education, expla nation and adjustment. He is not an enforcement officer in any sense of the word...
...will in nay way bolster the NRA I difficult indeed to see. Actually, what is happening is simply that the NRA is sinking to the grubby level of the back-clapping, hand-wrenching Rotarian, and will presently descend to the more congenial state of shrieking hysteria; it will thus attain to a shrill crescendo of asininity. The effect of the whole thing is comparable to that produced by a firecracker exploding in a bowl of whipped cream; by this time the worthy General Johnson must feel something like a well-used intellectual fingerbowl. It is not entirely without significance that...
...cooped up unnaturally and are accomplishing little of value, the men who are to be grub-staked will be on their own as their ancestors were. "The depression of '49 was lifted by the discovery of gold in California," he said. "Where those miners suffered unfold hardships to attain their goal, modern searchers will be aided by improved transportation, which makes both labor and gold mobile. Furthermore, the fact that seventy percent of our metal miners, and ten thousand mining engineers are out of work, and twenty percent of our coal miners face starvation, points the way to a solution...