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...fact he has: ever since 17 years ago when he was raised to the decorative presidency of A.F. of L. In those years he has reached some philosophic conclusions: that boys will be boys; that no one is perfect; that in the long run the laws of economics will fix things up; that, besides, he couldn't do anything about it if he wanted to. The thing that gets him excited is the insinuation that he has been an accessory, before or after the fact, in any crookedness. That is unjustifiable slander. Mr. Green makes the windows rattle with...
Throughout the U.S., some 329,000 children were in a similar fix. The Federal Office of Education estimated that 200,000 would crowd into present or makeshift classrooms. The remaining 129,000 would have to get their education in tents or portable houses, or go without schooling...
...fact is the people have not yet made up their minds that we are at war. . . . They have not buckled down to the determination to fight this war through; for they have got the idea into their heads that we are going to get out of this fix somehow by strategy! That's the word-strategy...
...renovated Supreme Court he met and worsted some of the country's highest-priced legal talent, became a bright sharp sword in the New Deal. He fought for the Government's right to fix wages for workmen on Government contracts, fought for the wages and hours law. He defended the right of the Government to intervene in bankruptcy proceedings. He argued for the spread of Federal control over the nation's waterways. In all his earnest advocacy of these New Deal measures he was upheld...
...price, allots the material -theoretically at least-to where it is most needed. But who is to set the price of lingerie, women's stockings, boys' hats, golf balls and the million other items that indirectly contribute to the cost of living? In Germany, where prices are fixed, the people are used to taking orders about prices and distribution. Britain is a tight geographic entity where the enforcement of Government price edicts is reasonably simple. But, say the editors, the multiplicity of U.S. life makes it desirable to let the market,, operate as far as possible to fix...