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...That was the sum and substance of what happened. There was no defiance of the Government whatsoever, and my clients and the writer are in entire sympathy with the NRA and the President's Recovery Program, though we are against price-fixing alone as a mere element in that program...
...understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself with engineering the situation that brings everything off. He is a clumsy device on the stage; he is clumsier, because more explicit, in the written homily...
...President were to unbosom himself to the American people--and he has studiously refrained from public or private prophesy--he would be compelled to concede that there are so many elements over which the government has control and so many over which it has no control that any attempt to forecast the future is necessarily a matter of guessing what each element will do in a given set of circumstances...
...most hectic year in American politics. He has not blurted. Sagaciously he has made no appearance to the public outside the administering of oath of office to President Roosevelt, which was his duty. And finally he has in my opinion cooperated with the present administration by weighing the element of time against its perpetual offspring -change. C. H. McWlLLIAMS Wilmington. Ohio Sirs...
...examinations or undersecretaries, who think in terms of theses merely, and cannot catch the higher tones of courtesy. If courtesy will not avail with the officials, perhaps expediency would carry a firmer point. For at a time when the alleged necessities of economy are estranging the after dinner element in Widener's clientele, an enterprising bureaucracy with the instinct to survive would do well to make some new, influential, and yet inexpensive friends...