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Borah's shadow, and the threat it represented, had caused Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter...
...before Parliament on his return from meeting with the Supreme War Council "somewhere in France" (see p. 28), would not end if & when Poland broke. It would end only when Britain and France had "put an end, once and for all, to the intolerable strain of living under the threat of Nazi aggression. . . . There can be no peace until the menace of Hitlerism has been finally removed." The Prime Minister's voice rose only once, when he spoke the ally's language, perhaps echoing something he had heard over there. It was the Allies' first slogan...
...ASCAP collected $3,878,000 from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music, Inc.: to "uncover a wealth of new talent in the U. S. . . . and bring to the American public an abundance of enjoyable new music." It is more important as a threat: to make ASCAP shave its fees in radio's 1941 contract. If fees are revised, Broadcast Music, Inc., will be dissolved. If not, NAB members expect to hand ASCAP a shellacking by 1) refusing to plug any ASCAP songs, including those from movies, producer of much of today...
...threat of a runaway commodity price inflation. An emergency had been proclaimed and there was small doubt that Franklin Roosevelt was prepared, if necessary, to fix prices and limit profits. What form this "might take was not yet settled. In the view of many a New Dealer most industry has been making passable profits on a mediocre volume of business (Federal Reserve Production Index was between 95 and 100); a larger volume should rather reduce than raise prices, for unit costs will fall. Anticipating Administration pressure if not a Presidential outburst against profiteering, copper and lead producers confined themselves...
...other threat was peace. If peace comes unexpectedly, before enormous export orders bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...