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...obey the Senate but even Senator Walsh had to admit that the President had the Senate checkmated. Any further action by the Senate, he argued, would be only a "futile gesture" so long as President Hoover supported his appointees. As an indirect attack upon the three Power Commissioners a move of unlikely success was started to delete their salaries from forthcoming appropriation bills...
...must see that their roots have proper soil to put their precious tendrils into. City children must not be denied grass and flowers, fields and streams-all the imaginative surroundings that are a part of nature. . . . Ten years will see the start of this new generation. We can move swiftly after that. Why, today we think little of spending $700,000,000 annually on our two great arms of defense-yet it is with difficulty that we vote a twentieth part of that sum towards national health and national education. Somehow it is hard to 'sell' an intangible...
...Next move of Satan is to create "from the most lurid infernal material" Francesco Saverio Nitti and make him Prime Minister of Italy. Under Nitti Bolshevism almost strangles Fascism, but God the Father in the nick of time sends Hero Garibaldi in a dream to Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. Counseled by Garibaldi, aided by Mussolini, d'Annunzio rushes to the rescue of the Roman Victory, severs her chains and leads her triumphant to Fiume...
Prophecy. "It is not impossible to set a date for the beginning of the business recovery. I think that we are approximately at the worst of the Depression and that the next important move will be upward. ... I expect conditions at the end of 1931 to be a good deal better than they...
...halt the flight of capital the German Reichsbank has had to put its discount rate up. This move has been successful. The flight has ceased. But with the rate 2% in Manhattan, 3% in London and 2% in Paris it was 5% last week in Berlin...