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...Weir who also chairmans subsidiary Weirton Steel of Weirton, W. Va. Last week white-crested Founder Weir got a sizzling telegram from NRAdministrator Johnson: ''You are about to commit a deliberate violation of Federal laws and ... if you do so, I shall request the Attorney General to proceed against you immediately." Founder Weir proceeded to commit the "violation," then settled down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time, he said) that sentimental masterpiece, David Copperfield. Would the Attorney General indict him? The steel business is currently improving, has little grudge against the Government. President Roosevelt...
Having removed the curse of taking government aid, Mr. Jones could now proceed to make the Government a large, if not the largest stockholder, with full voting rights, in perhaps one-quarter of all the country's banks without disgracing them. He announced completed arrangements to go into 1,293 banks with...
...even the Conservatives had become so wrought up that their representatives in Congress were demanding a Mussolini; an American dictator. The new administration has taken a course that leads directly away from this circle. The theory of this new course is that the machinery of self government should proceed from the citizen's own industrial life, assisted by a group of people whose policies are integrated with those of the government. Thus the nation as a whole will work for the common good, but the idea of individual effect will be preserved. This is in direct opposition to a dictatorship...
...financial, reatier, and labor groups. Labor can be bought off by a meaningless advisory board which can be proclaimed in glory and stified at leisure, and the rentier class can be taken in by the prospect of no write-off of bad investment. Then the government entrepreneurs can proceed to scotch both of them by the invisible, intangible method of raising prices by restriction of production, allowing inefficient industries through tariffs...
...Fresh cheers from the Noble Lords greeted an announcement for the Admiralty that in cruisers as well as aircraft His Majesty's Government will now proceed to build until their strength is not less than that of the strongest foreign power...