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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...almost the same time. It was that spring in which all banks were closed in the country where dollars mattered. Few businessmen could read that portent. Most businessmen retained their faith that this depression would pass like others. Not until the Second and Third New Deals did businessmen begin to suspect that the New Deal was splitting the Money-Power atom; that henceforth money would be just money, while Power was going to belong to politics. A.D. 1940 was the year in which that suspicion was confirmed...
...prophets of disaster, the professional alarmists, the convinced pessimists, the empty brains and the sour stomachs who still exist among us here and there." Referring to Benito Mussolini's recent order to jettison "the remaining petty bourgeois ballast," Popolo di Roma suggested that nothing remained but to begin...
...Memorial Church concerts will feature the Harvard University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society in a program of Christmas music, directed by G.W. Woodworth '24, professor of Music. Dean Willard L. Sperry will conduct the services, which will begin at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 8:15 o'clock in the evening...
...cities this year). Today's fancy ice skaters have developed an astounding rapport with each other and with frozen water. They have already done about everything on skates it would be safe to show the children. To other, less accomplished skaters, the great ice stars already begin to seem like gods. To timid nonskaters they frequently seem on the point of killing themselves...
...also made a highly significant announcement: the U. S. steel industry, now operating at the highest rate in its history (78,000,000 tons a year), must either build new capacity or begin rationing its customers. "I am convinced," said Deputy Batt, "that the steel industry must enlarge its capacity, and I see indications that the industry realizes...