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...they crowded around with enthusiastic plans for the second four years of the New Deal. He beamed and chatted on with the Press who quizzed him at its conferences. Yes, he thought something should be done to regulate the influx of foreign funds ("hot money," he called it) whose sudden withdrawal might cause a stockmarket panic. No, he still did not think any new taxes would be necessary. Yes, he would not be surprised if John Gilbert Winant, who resigned during the campaign, should return to head the Social Security Board.* No, he had not given any thought to filling...
...preserved (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Comrade Litvinoff, having secured Soviet recognition, went home to Moscow via Rome. When he was asked by the Eternal City's Catholic journalists whether the church clause was going to hold water he replied with his characteristic wink & shrug. Last week in Moscow, sudden and final violation of what President Roosevelt had thought would be an effective promise, occurred simultaneously with honors for Comrade Litvinoff...
While the deflationary effects of sudden liquidation of the $7,000,000,000 worth of U. S. investments now owned abroad would be terrific, the inflationary effects of incoming capital is the Government's immediate problem. The money not only goes into the stockmarket in the form of cash but also goes as gold into the credit base, where it has ten times as much effect, a dollar of gold supporting at least $10 worth of credit. U. S. gold stocks are already at the incredible figure of $11,100,000,000, over one-half the world...
...Canal, in addition to being very expensive and practically useless, might well be a positive danger to established industries. The position taken by the President in this instance cannot be regarded favorably, for there can be little doubt as to the motivating force behind the sudden revival of a program long fancied by Mr. Roosevelt. Indeed, the whole conduct of the affair smacks too much of a spoiled child deprived of a cherished plaything. Unquestionably the people have given the President a large, if ill-defined mandate, but this project was certainly anything but an integral part...
...second or two, whether because my cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel Harker afterwards said, because of a fleeting, almost intangible carburation mood ... I do not know. At any rate there was no tremor, no noise; nothing but the sudden sight of the red bulb, a mute witness. But the engine had not stopped at all. and did not stop...