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...talked nearly an hour with Secretary of State Hull by telephone during the morning. That night he headed north, reached Washington the next chill, drizzly afternoon, at the White House again talked with Mr. Hull. In the rain outside, men & women sloshed up & down Pennsylvania Avenue, now & then looking curiously at the White House. There rested their hopes, their problems, perhaps the shape of their fate. Unimportant, at the moment, were the Logan-Walter Bill that Mr. Roosevelt would veto, the St. Lawrence Seaway that he would promote, the controversies, vexations and misunderstandings of ordinary times. Mr. Roosevelt had asked...
...Lord Lothian spent three hours in conference with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, and emerged saying, "My discussion on conditions was optimistic-providing we get some help from you." Washington's mood about aid to Britain probably kept Lord Lothian from being too hopeful. The President had decided to postpone any attempt to repeal the Johnson Act to permit British credits until the next Congress meets in January. There were stories that President Roosevelt was becoming disposed to go slow on aid to Britain, possibly fearful that Britain might soon be past...
...Business would "continue or revive" Hull reciprocal trade treaties (53.2%), housing and home loan acts (39.2%, a plurality...
...Adding the "continue or revive" votes to the "good ideas badly handled" votes, FORTUNE found a majority who approved in principle of at least six New Deal measures: the anti-trust drive (72.5%), Housing and Home Loan Acts (70.9%), Wages and Hours Act (68.9%), the Hull trade treaties (67.2%), PWA (55.8%) and the Wagner Act (51.2%). Yet 94.1% agreed that such measures were preventing recovery. Some reforms which the Forum had approved in principle were also high on its list of deterrents: Wagner Act (74.5%), taxation policies (66.8%), Wages and Hours Act (48.5%), anti-trust drive (40%). Outstanding for unpopularity...
...pioneering the first new Navy fighting craft since planes became a fleet weapon. For their insignia they went to Cineman Walt Disney, got what they wanted from his Hollywood studio- a mosquito astride a torpedo. For their tactics they went abroad, for the new PTs-some 70 ft. of hull enclosing 4,500 h.p. in three engines- are designed for a job new to the U. S. Navy, old stuff to the British, Italians and Germans. The PTs are made for swift dashes into harbors, hit-&-run jabs into enemy fleets. Their four torpedoes give them half the striking power...