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...potato program was tacked on the AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately, or unfortunately, the President cannot veto part of a bill. He has got to accept or reject the whole thing and they [potato sponsors] reasoned logically that he would rather take the potato than destroy the whole measure asked...
...reasonable person thinks that this is going to destroy competent corporations or impair business as a whole. Taxes on 95% of our corporations are actually reduced...
...program of which you speak is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose. Such a purpose, it goes without saying, is not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome accumulations and to lay the burdens of government where they can best be carried...
...with his political adviser, the Communist Party official assigned to most Soviet merchant ships. This worthy, Comrade Miguschenko, agreed that even with $7,000 worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
...impairment" of assets, "confiscation" of property. On the New York Stock Exchange utility shares dropped one to four points. Calling the law "purely political," President James Francis Fogarty of conservative North American Co. threatened to take to the courts to protect his company's assets against "attempts to destroy them through punitive legislation." But most utilities were too confused last week to say precisely what they would do and when and how. Some talked of forcing the Government to take the initiative by deliberately refusing to obey the provisions of the act. Most logical time for such a test would...