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License. To bring balky industries into line the President can clamp a licensing system down on them. By canceling a license he may put one concern or a whole industry out of business until it is ready to subscribe to a fair trade code. The licensing period is one year instead of two. Last week many a manufacturer was threatening to shut up shop altogether rather than submit to this gun-at-head provision...
...Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial decrees, and the remainder of the law hardly more than a pious expression of policy which any concern could defy with impunity...
Whether Casey actually did ask the doctor if the boy were dead or not will be difficult for the investigators to ascertain, as the accounts of the witnesses vary widely. What may be assumed, however, is that Chief Casey's concern over the expense of the oxygen hardly exceeded his interest in saving the life; Casey's real reason for calling off the rescue appears to be the same one which has prompted him to interfere on several other occasions -- he is determined to discredit and to make as difficult as possible the work of the rescue squad...
...that time it has given a good deal of thought and some lip service to Reform. President Richard Whitney from time to time made footling pleas that all companies listed on the Big Board issue in the interest of their shareholders honest, complete and accurate statements. Many an offending concern indifferently shrugged its shoulders, the plain implication being that Mr. Whitney would do well to mind his own business. Last week such reactions underwent a violent change. For Mr. Whitney, upon recommendation of the List Committee, had ordered that the common and preferred stock of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp...
There is not much plot to most men's lives, and the ending is invariably "un-happy." But few novelists attempt a complete picture of even one individual career. Since the main outline is universally identical, writers do not concern themselves so much with total similarities as with partial differences. Author Fallada's case-history is of a young German couple whose developing plight is echoed everywhere today throughout the western world; but his Teutonic tones give the well-known story a kind of foreign freshness...