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Last fortnight, after eight months of unsuccessful wrangling with AAA and NRA officials, the flour millers became the first industry to walk out cold on General Johnson. Their departure raised the question: Should the Administration crack down with its biggest club-power to license industries if they want to do business at all. That posed another bigger question. NRA was given two years of life by the Recovery Act but the licensing club was given to the President for only one year, ending June 16, 1934. If the President wants to use the club after that date he must...
...course not, I did not crack a book," quoth the stripling...
Josef Stalin heard last week in his mind's ear the groans of the dead and dying, the crack and crunch of wood & steel, which went to make up Russia's railroad disasters of the last month. He issued a decree: "Transport must improve. Some workers are so inefficient as almost to be wreckers. Unless their work improves, allegiance to the Communist Party will not save them." High spots in a month's wrecking which the Government dribbled out to the Press days late...
...unnecessary contrasts between the unfortunate airmail crack-ups and the "snugness and warmness of the Senate Office Building''? . . . The entire article is shot through with ugly implications and vicious insinuations, the repeated inference being that the contracts were canceled merely in a misguided effort to make political capital, and that the Administration is unconcerned about the disasters resulting therefrom. As a deliberate, skillful, and unfair propaganda piece in opposition to the cancelation of the contracts, and questioning, by inference, the good faith of the Administration, it could scarcely be improved upon...
...choppy water that afternoon. Primed by a robust meal of steak and beer the night before, the Oxonians carried their shell from the boathouse; as challengers, set it in the water first; pulled off sweaters and scarfs; waited. The Cambridge boat was ready in a moment. At the crack of a gun, 16 pairs of white arms swung in unison, off to a flailing 36-beat start. Oxford edged away to a half-length lead, held it for a while. The slower stroking but more powerful Cambridge sweep-swingers pulled alongside, passed at the mile. Wide open water separated them...