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...which he has chosen to achieve them. If all the nation's industrialists were as realistic as Mr. Weir and Mr. Budd, if all saw as they do the weakness of Mr. Roosevelt's position, we should not have to wait so long for that crescendo in which the basic theme of our social structure will finally become manifest...
...stock and commodities exchanges, a message timed to be published along with the introduction of a drastic bill (see p. 49) designed to stop all big businessmen from trading in the stock of their companies. ¶ President Roosevelt sent another message to Congress recommending that sugar be made a basic commodity, proposing definite quotas for the various sources of U. S. sugar supply. Restriction would be paid for by a processing tax, but a reduction in the sugar tariff would keep the consumer from bearing the burden. This proposal promised relief not only for an industry that has been sunk...
Yellow journalism, as a cult, is complicated and interesting; its high priests have been more venerated in America than elsewhere, and more dangerous. The first article in its creed is that all of the basic problems, all of the really sensational problems of our society, should not be touched; the large type is reserved for those who are either helpless or insignificant, who can be expected to feel the storm without retaliation. Superintendent Gill of Norfolk presented an obvious opportunity. He is a subordinate state official, engaged in a revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing...
...Harding, Coolidge) an extra bonus, payable in 1945, to all honorably discharged men in the World War. The reason why U. S. pension figures are rising while those of other nations show a gradual decrease is because pensions in the U. S. are a political issue. Though the basic law regulating U. S. World War pensions was passed in 1917, it has since been subjected "to some 240 changes, the great majority being 'liberalizations' effected by political interference to create new bodies of dubiously entitled favorites...
...President's message to Congress, although it contained a few pregnant sentences calculated to sound the radical horn, did not answer the basic radical question of public ownership Much of the radical criticism of President Roosevelt, from the beginning of his administration, has been directed at his refusal to answer this question. Much of the conservative criticism has been directed at his obvious intention to carry out legislative reform which would be meaningless, because unsanctioned, unless he answered it in the affirmative. The tragedy of the President's position is that both of these criticisms are perfectly sound...