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...Some Harvard professors have recently been criticizing the N. R. A. in behalf of the consumer's interest. They are wrong, I believe, in claiming that the Recovery Program will result in dangerous price-fixing and restriction of output. There may be price-fixing, but it will only go so far as to protect labor; further price fixing will not be permitted by the Government. Regulation of output, I think, is in part necessary...
...vacillating treatment of Tammany, the time required to make up his mind about issues like unemployment insurance, and other aspects of the Albany days make us realize that the quoted remark of Walter Lippmann about a pleasant gentleman who had no important qualifications for the Presidency was not completely wrong then. Presidential treatments of last June's compromise on veteran's cuts and of the abandonment of the tariff agreement bill, as well as the abdication of the vital tax issue on the recovery bill are all glossed over a bit, though not seriously...
...fact that Ford's theories rest on the assumption, as he himself says, that mankind is fundamentally good, is his own justification. The industrial system, he feels, is wrong "because it is devoted to making money instead of to making human values." An old timer in the automobile trade once told me that in New York, at some of the first auto shows, there was not such a firm belief in the goodness of human nature among those whom Ford took occasion to visit on his interfering expeditions. He was not such a recognized philosopher in those days, of course...
...When California's Centre Roy Riegels made his notorious run in the wrong direction in the 1929 Rose Bowl game against Georgia Tech, it was Benny Lorn who overtook him, tackled him just short of his own goal...