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Speaking on business conditions in the past, Donham asserted that continuance for three months of what was going on before Roosevelt came in, would have brought on some sort of social revolution to destroy the present order. The job the present administration has done, on the other hand, is "perfectly amazing...
...President Roosevelt's program reminds me of nothing so much as a child playing with dynamite. He is trying to make prices go up. He may succeed. The trouble is that in doing so he may destroy the country and himself as well. . . . How would the farmer benefit if wheat sold for $10 per bu. if the $10 wouldn't buy a pair of overalls or a gallon of gasoline...
...surrendered the position and taken to building an Empire preference unit. And the disease is as cumulative a one as the matter of armaments. If France raises her import or export duties, the other countries feel compelled to follow suit. Faced by such absurd but deliberate attempts to destroy all the advantages of the division of labor, it would seem to many that the nations would realize their folly and put an end to it. One might think that "if they all meet around the council-table, face to face, and discuss the matter quietly and sensibly, things could...
Last week in New York their two-months-old Deodorizer Co. was doing a thriving business. An alert staff stood by, ready to rush and spray at any hour. They can make a valerianated room habitable in 12 hr., destroy 98% of the odor in 24 hr., all of it in two or three days. Racketeering bombers were keeping them busy at the rate of a dozen or two bombings a week. More & more manufacturers were seeking their services. Lloyd's of London recommended them to clients insured against malicious mischief...
Died, Charles E. Eveleth, 57, vice president of General Electric Co.. War-time developer of a submarine detector which Allied forces used to destroy 15, cripple 35 German U-boats; after long illness; in Schenectady...