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...Party program but confined himself to straight-forward criticism, bold but not bitter, vigorous but not violent, scorching but not sarcastic. Excerpts: "An endless succession of interferences and experiments was inaugurated under the deceptive slogan of a new deal. This policy of government by guess, officially explained by President Roosevelt as founded on a philosophy of try-anything-once, was initiated under the title of economic planning. No one of its proponents has even been able to define the New Deal or to explain what it is aimed at or where it is going. No one of them has been...
...stopping to explain where the spending money was to come from, Dr. Townsend sat down amid rapturous cheers, whistles, yells, and ringing of cow bells by his convinced disciples...
Said Mr. Kennedy ominously: "It would be little short of criminal, if, on the threshold of prosperity for the industry, this opportunity to eliminate waste and substitute profits were to be passed by without action. It might subsequently be difficult to explain such inaction to litigious stockholders or to enquiring Congressional committees...
...hard to explain an answer like that. In the first place, it is an emotional reaction, pure and simple. . . . In the second place, I am by no means 'for' Roosevelt's policies-assuming that...
Sportswriters were hard put to explain Varoff's performance, which boosted the accepted world's record up 2 1/8 in. Born 23 years ago of Russian parents on the Island of Maui in Hawaii, he won no great notice as a San Francisco schoolboy-vaulter, none at all as a University of Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much...