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...putting first things first -shortages in basic materials demand priorities which are not being efficiently handled...
Task. Readers who do not believe in FORTUNE'S basic assumption will find its arguments less convincing than its picture of the facts. To people who believe like Herbert Hoover ("Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations."), the tasks in which FORTUNE'S editors say the U.S. is failing are themselves unnecessary. Unpredictable developments in the war may reduce the urgency on which the editors insist-the Germans and the Russians may cancel each other out more than they believe possible; the turns and twists of modern...
...minister of today . . . who does not avail himself of contemporary psychology's invaluable contribution is neglecting an indispensable resource for effectiveness in his work. To know how character is formed, deformed and reformed is basic. . . . Because of ignorance of this available information, many ministers in dealing with personal problems are doing far more harm than good.-Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...Secretary of the Treasury he fostered the famed Triangle Development, 50 acres of marmoreal bureaucracy between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, in the city's most congested quarter. Following many of the suggestions of the McMillan Commission, which revitalized neoclassic Washington in 1902 and revived the basic plan, Mellon proclaimed that he too built in the tradition of L'Enfant. But L'Enfant's broad, radial avenues were meant to siphon off horse-drawn traffic as handily as possible. MelIon's Triangle blocked off some streets, bunched the biggest buildings at points where few traffic-discharging...
...lose one's luggage several times in life." But Rauschning's crisis is the crisis of conservatives everywhere; he states fearlessly and frankly their difficulties, mistakes, defeats and failures in battle with revolutionary Bolshevism and Naziism. The Conservative Revolution helps to restore to the conservative position the basic sense in which it is acceptable to all men -the sense of conserving human civilization...