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...entire U. S. industrial system, "a vast and complex organic growth," was last week laid out on a long slab in the marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building for examination piercing and profound. Lest the gigantic creature cry out or have hysterics, it was at once given a general anesthetic. Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney of Wyoming, chairman of the Temporary National Economic Committee created last spring by Presidential message and joint Congressional action, had already administered repeated injections of soothing reassurance, viz: "This is not a punitive investigation. ... I don't believe in centralized planning...
...Definitely psychasthenic, manicdepressive, dementia praccox, parctic personalities with a large does of inferiority complex" was the verdict of Archibald B. Butterfield, informed that two Princeton psychologists had found Harvard men to be "anobbish, blase, conceited, intellectual, and socialite...
...Madison; he was also "the father of American ethnology" and originator of the world's first systematic plan of profit-sharing, introduced in his Pennsylvania glass works in 1794. His idea was so simple in theory that it became a catchword of capitalism but it is so complex in practice that few companies have tried it. Last week a Senate committee started to find out why this is so and what, if anything, should be done about it. At least it should provide a neat display of benign capitalism as an antidote to a possible Monopoly pogrom...
Much has happened to England since Gibbon wrote, and to Robert Graves the fall of Rome seems a much more complex matter than it did to Gibbon. Nor does he write of it with the majestic smugness that has made Gibbon an unsurpassed soporific for 150 years. The barbarians were really pretty tough. The emperors whom Gibbon dismissed as weaklings were really doing their best; the barbarian generals were smart men-besides, Rome was a hard city to defend. So in Robert Graves's books Rome falls with a sigh rather than with the sonorous crash that Gibbon heard...
Meanwhile Stanford piled up three times their opponents yardage and, by the last period, they had broken down the Dartmouth forward wall and were gaining at will. Easterners had hoped to crack the mythical "bigger and betterness" complex of western gridmen, and now they have got some explaining...