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...tariff-protected market, sell in competition with "the peon workers of the Argentine. . . ." For this familiar complaint John Bracken, who is a farmer himself, had a brand-new farmer's remedy-he would replace such agricultural aids as guaranteed floor prices and special subsidy payments with a basic formula: let farm prices be fixed in advance of each crop year at levels high enough to guarantee the farmers "their proportionate share of the national income...
...Christian Century came out against President Roosevelt. Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, quiet, bespectacled editor of this liberal Protestant weekly, wrote that the basic issue was Term III. Last week, the Christian Century came out for Tom Dewey, again seeing one basic issue. The issue, said the Century, is the "comparative moral stature of the two candidates...
...Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission of a new constitution at the 1944 election...
Problems, not personalities, were on the reading public's mind. On most nonfiction best-seller lists were Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision, Charles & Mary Beard's A Basic History of the United States, Edgar Snow's People on Our Side, Walter Lippmann's U.S. War Aims, Joseph C. Grew's Ten Years in Japan...
...estimating which Mayer decried. And in answer to the thesis that production tricks learned during war could not be used in peace, economists gave merely a few examples: would U.S. farmers forget the new stunts which had enabled them to raise the greatest U.S. crops in history? Would such basic industries as steel and copper junk their new skills...