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...quantities of silver to be buried in its vaults and several hundred million dollars of currency would be paid out to silver producers and speculators. Faced with the combined strength of the silver and inflation blocs. Administration leaders scratched many a greying lock while they wondered how they could muster enough votes to beat this bill, or emasculate...
...alphabetical society has been seeking to confound its enemies with some new morsel of statistics and research. Most of them pass over out poor undergraduate domes. But the latest and most interesting item deserves immediate pursuit by every expert in research, and all the statistics which Harvard University can muster to its defence...
With the humility that I can muster, I assure Mr. Anen, that I sincerely doubt if the "Saturday Review" would "not only welcome, but publish a sensible criticism of its policies." Even if my doubt were removed. I should hesitate to disturb the peace in which the "superannuated professors" broad in one of their few stamping grounds. For these professors and their opinions have a real value as Early Americana, and I have always suffered from the collector's passion. H. M. Wade...
Senator Thomas and the monetary diehards are having it back and forth with a fine gusto about whether the Treasury shall reap the four billion or so of reward if the dollar is devalued. The best argument that the outraged sound money men seem able to muster is the moral one that no government should appropriate something for nothing in this cavalier fashion. Whereas Senator Thomas and the rest fight for devaluation and confiscation of the gold profit as if the four billion dollars were essential to the financing of the recovery program...
Moreover, and even despite the fine clothes which inflation must apparently wear in order to pass muster before the sound money men, it is a little discouraging to see a lot of people in the west turning out to waste their lives scraping up tid-bits of metal which are hard to find and which will never serve a useful purpose...