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...while the Administration is in line for a commendatory slap on the back, there is one item of some magnitude for which they should be called to task; and that is their ill-considered duplication of functions by the N. L. B. and the worthy if forgotten Department of Labor. The President's very excusable regard for the Board as a member of the larger body of the N. R. A. ought not to blind him to the disadvantages consequent upon setting up two bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations...
...without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. . . . The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. ... Let it for once be said outright, though it is a slap in the face for the vulgarity of the age: property is not a vice, but a gift, and a gift such as few possess. . . . Liberty has always been the liberty of those who wish to obtain the power, not to abolish it. ... Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism . . . Christian...
...Slap in Face. One afternoon a roomful of newshawks faced Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in his office with Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Peek stony-faced at his elbow. The Secretary explained that: 1) the production of corn and hogs must be cut because the export of pork had fallen off; 2) the packers would be handed a code which provided the Government access to their books, power to control their margin of profit; 3) the AAA's milk marketing agreements were unsatisfactory and would have to be revised to control dairy production...
...farm problem lay not in a vicious thwarting of Nature but in increasing markets, in plugging world markets. He had opposed unduly rigid restrictions on packers and their profits. He had put through the "unsatisfactory" milk marketing agreements. To Mr. Peek the Secretary's remarks were a slap in the face, and though Mr. Wallace delivered the slap, the author of the slap was Braintruster Rexford G. Tugwell...
...locate a town in which a candidate of theirs had been returned to municipal office, an event which seemed to have called for a congratulatory banquet. Stanley Baldwin, Ramsey MacDonald, and Sir John Simon were the principal speakers of the evening; and though Sir John carefully administered a slap on MacDonald's back, it was all too plain that the other assembled Tories had still some doubts of their new comrade. This is somewhat surprising, for though Ramsey, dear lad that he is, has led a rather contradictory career, one can be fairly safe in predicting that he has found...