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...your issue of Feb. 5 on p. 17 you write: "Socialist Norman Thomas cried out that one billion dollars was the least amount needed for carrying CWA forward." That is correct. And I also said that there should be guarantees of steady appropriations to maintain necessary relief by work or otherwise for the unemployed, until such time as they could be reabsorbed into properly planned industries. However, I have steadily insisted that CWA was not the best way; that instead PWA should be greatly expanded, especially in the direction of re-housing the quarter of our population who now live...
...Roosevelt's ideas will mean that the capitalistic class will suffer greatly in wealth, power, and influence, for the while the capitalist system may endure it will be in a sadly atrophied form. Consequently, what is more logical than that this class should make every attempt to maintain their system and to this end attack the President on every occasion? All the support that he has received from them so far has been given him merely because of their hope that they themselves might gain control of the regulatory machinery which was being erected--such as the NRA--and thus...
...wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months at sea has of keeping himself physically inviolate; and it was only because some of the boys became disgruntled at having their snouts kept out of the public trough by their rivals that they...
...Royalists fail, the Republic will probably be able to maintain itself if only because it represents a compromise between the various warring political factions, and because, due to the growth in the centralization of authority, the government has a much firmer hold on the country than in any of the previous revolutions. Thus the present is not likely to give birth to any very radical movement--although hovering vaguely and almost unnoticed over the scene is the shadow of Fascism and dictatorship. NEMO
...adequate but undistinguished; the only performance which stands out is that of Oswald Yorke as Sir Miles Standing. He also had the one good line in the play; when told that he is suspected he exclaims in amazement, "I couldn't do that. I'm a conservative!" The sets maintain the standard of excellence which has distinguished most of the plays at the Plymouth this season...