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...Increase of plant capacity over Dec. 5 output was forbidden, except under special circumstances. FACA had power to control production and distribution through a quota system. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, under whose direction the liquor industry fell, had inserted a stipulation that the industry pay "parity" prices for its raw materials. In short, it was the code which most distillers had feared and hated and which they had no part in drafting...
...field, he said, results from a well organized cotton textile industry "with which slipshod British methods would be unable to compete under any circumstances." With an eye cocked on the debased U. S. dollar, Sir Herbert claimed that it is not yet far enough down to make U. S. raw cotton cheaper in England than Indian cotton. He urged British textile men to buy only Indian cotton...
...additions to present plant capacity except by a certificate of necessity from the F. A. C. A. and absolute control of production and distribution through a quota system; 3) power to fix prices; 4) an agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture to pay "parity" prices established by him for raw materials. Administration of the separate codes for brewers, importers and distributors, which come up for hearings this week, was also to be placed in the hands of the omnipotent...
This rather raw exhibition impels me to say to you that it is beyond comprehension in these times, in this stage of human instability, that you should display so little tact, to say the least, as to flaunt your anti-semitic tendencies before the eyes of your readers...
...dashes for the dining room and claws angry gashes in the leather seats of the ponderous Empire furniture. Fifi Vollard does not mind for he has two dining rooms, one to exhibit his furniture and another smaller closet off the kitchen where he is apt to retire and munch raw peaches while would-be purchasers are left alone in a silent house full of pictures...