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...Farm prices neither stable nor satisfactory, and the basic problems of agriculture no nearer solution than before the Administration's exercise of sweeping controls over farms and farmers...
...good one. Balding Mr. Frank used few purple words, stood hard on commonsense. "A Program for a Dynamic America" (see p. 21) tiptoed by a few apparently impregnable New Deal forts (reciprocal trade agreements, foreign policy), but where the defenses were low, it attacked mercilessly. Taking as one basic premise the statement "the New Deal misunderstands economic America," the report smashed at what it termed defeatism and reaction in the New Deal, suggested that the passing of the frontier, the slowing-up of the birth rate did not necessarily mean that the nation's plant was overbuilt, nor that...
...light of this prospectus issued to the American people in 1932, the Program Committee has conscientiously audited the actual "state of the nation" after nearly seven years of New Deal control and before the abnormal stimulus of war demands began to blur the evidence of the basic soundness or unsoundness of the Administration's domestic policies...
...Committee undertakes, in the sections to follow, to chart the course of policy in varied fields of national life in terms of this basic position...
...will, in time, find that it simply cannot provide, because it has neglected to make Economic America a going concern producing enough wealth annually to foot the bills. This is the blind alley into which the New Deal has led and is still leading America. And this is the basic blunder which the Republican Party must, in the interest of the social welfare of the American people, set itself boldly to correct. This is the first step towards a sound and permanently feasible social program...