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...subject, in part to his clearly thought-out philosophic position (he was Harvard-trained under Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking), which strengthens his thinking without getting in the way of his writing, in part to a gift for phrase typified by Stolberg's famed comment on NRA: "So far the New Deal has accomplished nothing that might not have been done better by an earthquake. A first-rate earthquake from coast to coast could have reestablished scarcity much more effectively . . . with far more speed and far less noise than the New Deal...
This was the same awful fear that panicked the U.S. into theeconomy-of-scarcity regimentations of the late unlamented NRA. For Mr. Whiteside's consuming fear-a fear shared by many-is that all-out production of peacetime goods during the transition from war to peace will glut the postwar market. "If we let manufacturers loose now to produce as much as they want to," he said, "I don't know what we would do at the end of the war." (Behind this fear was another one which constantly agitates WPBigwigs: that an early-bird reconvert would...
...Pacific bases, miscellaneous Grade Bs with the NRA eagle and the motto "We Do Our Part" on the title. Movies rate just after food and mail from home in morale value...
Bill Hassett is a Washington institution. Born in Northfield, Vt., he started his Washington newspaper career in 1909, worked decades as a newspaperman before shifting to a job with NRA and on to the White House. A kindly, gregarious, infallibly obliging gentleman of the old school, Bill Hassett rather likes being called a Victorian. He is deeply versed in English and American history and literature, lives in comfortably Victorian bachelor diggings on Pennsylvania Avenue, only five blocks from the White House...
...stoppage, and has never been organized by C.I.O. or A.F. of L. (its open-shop independent union: the Industrial Employes Association). And although he admitted to being a Republican, the nearest thing to an anti-New Deal statement reporters could worm out of him was that he thought the NRA had been an anti-free enterprise experiment...