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...book is not a biography, for the scant modern knowledge of Aquinas' life could not be expanded even into Mr. Chesterton's format. Nor is it a mental history of Aquinas; Mr. Chesterton cheerfully admits that he knows little of the metaphysics or theology which were the great framework of that history. It is an attempt to form a channel from Thomism to the mind of the modern man, and an attempt to prove, after the channel is made, that Aquinas never needed...
Last week, 64-year-old Judge Akerman took a second judicial crack at President Roosevelt's recovery program by declaring the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional and thus supplying the long-awaited framework for an appeal to the Supreme Court. Before him was a case in which a group of Florida citrus fruit growers were suing to enjoin Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes...
...Maddox said that the Covenant is flexible and that the necessary changes can be brought about within its framework...
...past, to the dead hand of bureaucracy, and to the lack of a competent civil service. In his speech on "Social Discipline" in Philadelphia last week Secretary Wallace dwelt on the insufficiency of governmental machinery alone--the government, he said, can only provide the initiative and the framework--but instead of viewing this as counselling despair, he went on to emphasize the absolute necessity of developing social discipline pari passit with the development of the program of social control. There is no difference here in the problem perceived, the difference is merely in the way of looking...
...representatives and business men; much more will be learned as experience is gained and the requisite material for analysis piles up. The economist who is willing to take the plunge has the whole world before him: costs, prices, investment, labor policies all become problems to be handled within the framework of the social determination to do something actively and consciously about controlling social destinies. If on the other hand he feels unable to take this plunge he must accept the opposite alternative of damning the whole movement toward control. One thing that is not likely to be of much...