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...possibility of a stable, peaceful society which can govern its foreign relations on a basis of welfare, not power; on an absolute good, not a relative one. The difficulties such an organization will face should not be underestimated; but in it there is hope, and in our present setup there is only inherent chaos. CASTOR...
...many respects, is a lot less than the Christian religion. So, for one, I hate to see the churches becoming ballyhoo agents for this or any other administration. After all, as so many wise ones are pointing out, there is much Fascism in the present setup. . . . Certainly it would be embarrassing to discover four or five years hence that the churches had been instrumental in entrenching a Fascist regime...
...suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, Lou Manning told newsmen that Mr. Cord & friends were interested in all forms of transportation- except those that run on rails. They began hunting for a shipyard long before President Roosevelt launched the Big Navy program. A shipyard would round out their setup. But Wall Street sized up the deal thus: Mr. Cord had shrewdly perceived that shipbuilding (in which labor is nearly 85% of the total costs) would bulk large in any public works program, that by buying one of the biggest U. S. shipyards he was sure to get some of the biggest...
...Defendants Squires, Sapiro and Nelson, Prosecutor Raber declared: "They provided the setup for the conspiracy. They helped organize the groups responsible for bombings, sluggings and strikes, the terrorism that put the price of cleaning a suit up to $1.75 while Al Capone took a cut and the public paid the bill. . . . When we've finished the shades will have been pulled off racketeering in Chicago for all time...
...Stock Exchange List Committee, made public a year-long file of correspondence between his body and Allied Chemical. Mr. Altschul, Lazard Freres partner and brother-in-law to New York's Governor Lehman, had politely and persistently asked for a complete statement of the company's financial setup. Just as persistently and politely the company-that is, Mr. Weber-had refused. The only benefit from such a move, suave Mr. Weber insisted, would fall to his competitors at home and abroad...