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...dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn Mr. Landis' part in drawing up and supporting such a dangerous, undemocratic, wrong bill as the one under which he so successfully operates...
...were in the so-called boom period." From President Frank F. Brooks of Pittsburgh's First National Bank popped a curious suggestion for the "most gigantic advertising campaign America ever saw, regardless of expense, to promote economic literacy. . . . a campaign that will draw the sharp line between right and wrong economics...
Many people may object to some conclusion reached by this method but they will never doubt its honesty and none will find fault with the Harvard tradition as outlined last night by Mr. Conant. With such a foundation, construction cannot go far wrong. Surely, it was an auspicious meeting...
...Stevenson rat is impervious to all such lures and hindrances. Resembling a three-wheeled roller skate loaded with small motors, electromagnets and switches, the robot is set on a track containing twelve forks at each of which a wrong turn leads to a dead-end. The robot is first set to take the turn to the right at every fork. When this proves to be wrong and results in a bump against the dead-end, the "rat" goes into reverse, backs up past the fork, goes forward again, taking the correct left turn. This resets the controls in such...
Both brokers and businessmen, however, took the promise of a "breathing spell" with a deal of salt. Some even remarked that, what with the New Deal legislation already enacted, there was precious little room for business to breathe anyway. ''Business and financial judgment may of course be wrong," said the sober Wall Street Journal, "but unmistakably the impression in such quarters was that Mr. Roosevelt favored a breathing spell for industry, not because industry needed it, but because it had become indispensable to Mr. Roosevelt and his Party...