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...amount of fines that NRA violators should pay, etc. It would renew Section 7a without change and would not permit restrictions on production except for special exceptions. Chief change in the proposed law, however, was that it offered a mass of new legal verbiage to bring NRA within the scope of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution and get around the Constitutional objections on which the White House was afraid to go to bat in the Belcher case...
...life has been not in the fields but at a desk. By the same token his prime enthusiasms do not spring from the sight of an unusually good stand of wheat but rather from the contemplation of an unusual, bold, far-reaching economic idea. Last week he had extraordinary scope for such ideas, for he was about to carry out the land-use portions of the President's latest relief program. His cut was tentatively set at $350,000,000 for erosion control, reforestation, etc.; $100,000,000 for rural electrification; $500,000,000 for rural rehabilitation-nearly...
...function of ABC-teaching. As for religious instruction, "the average Sunday School is taught by an untrained staff; its equipment is woefully meager; the curriculum is neither scientifically sound, comprehensive, nor sufficiently centred in the child's experience; the textbooks are biased in attitude and limited in scope; the pupils' attendance is haphazard, and the time spent by the average child in the average Protestant Sunday School is something less than 30 minutes of instruction per week and less than 40 hours per year...
...this hypothetical volume. His first installment (Look Homeward, Angel) appeared five years ago, his second (Of Time and the River) last week. In the interval Author Wolfe had written some 2,000,000 words, now has ready two more volumes of his projected six. Great in conception and scope, Author Wolfe's big book occasionally falters in execution, but his second volume is written with a surer hand than the first. If installments to come improve at such a rate there will no longer be any question about Wolfe's great and lasting contribution to U. S. letters...
...belongs to that modern school of writing that places the greatest emphasis upon psychological factors and descriptions and is a notable contribution to that field. The type of writing, however, necessarily limits the novel's scope and perspective...