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...Hellishness." Hitting at Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell, onetime Columbia University professor and Roosevelt "brain trust" member, Massachusetts' hulking Treadway roared: "The earmarks of an impractical college professor are plainly apparent in the language of the processing tax. I call upon him and his associates to explain...
...defense was expected to explain many a hitherto obscure fact-including why Banker Mitchell had mortgaged to young Morgan-Partner Morgan not only his town house but also his places at Tuxedo Park. N. Y. and Southampton...
...CRIMSON is one of the outstanding advisers of the belaboured Freshman. What is its proper advisory role? I need not explain to you the origins of my interest in the functions of an undergraduate newspaper in a great University, but by way of general explanation let me add that, successively, as a CRIMSON editor, as the University's secretary for publicity, and new as a tutor in Economics, I have had this as a constant interest...
...neighborly 15-minute talk on banks & banking. On the morrow the country's sound banks were to start reopening. During the sensational week they had all been closed by his decree, the President had done some extraordinary things. Now in A. B. C. fashion he wanted to explain his actions to his countrymen and persuade them, by simple word and confident voice, not to repeat their own extraordinary behavior of the week prior when all at once they attempted to convert their bank deposits into currency, precipitating crisis...
...were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking & Currency Committee arose to explain to his bewildered colleagues how H. R. 1491 gave dictatorial banking power to the President, authorized impounding of all gold, and provided for a new currency issue. Members were told that only by voting this measure could the nation's banks open on the morrow. Exalted by his subject...