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...subject of gold; he sketched the history of money; he traced the origins of the War; he debated Karl Marx with Michigan's Attorney General O'Brien, boomed for Inflation, attacked Alfred Emanuel Smith, defended President Roosevelt and Pope Leo XIII. Occasionally he touched on Detroit banking. Dicta of Father Coughlin...
...Excerpts from Father Ford's dicta on banking...
...with that solemn diffidence becoming to solitary interpretations of Olympian dicta, that one ventures to place an original construction on Dean Hanford's affidavit in re the evil of tutoring bureaus. If, however, temerity be not forbidden and the impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion...
...with a prime Rooseveltian motto: "It's not what you do, but how you do it." If Franklin should follow Theodore in holding that there are "good" trusts and "bad'' trusts, the executive arm of the Government would be in complete agreement with the Judicial arm. Dicta of the Chief Justice...
...perceive the fatal anomalies of the actual business structure of the world and prescribe for them. But this constitutes no adequate basis for such an attack as this on the integrity and usefulness of the economic scholar. And one feels an ironic inconsistency in Mr. Prince's simultaneous dicta that college chairs attract only these whom the world refuses, and that the incumbents of those chairs did not save the world from disaster. The harassed capitalist's desire to pass the buck is, however, not too difficult to understand...