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Either Or. "In the event that the Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act. The President has the powers, under the Constitution and under Congressional acts, to take measures necessary to avert a disaster which would interfere with the winning...
...business pages the Chief had the general remark that good progress was being made toward means to avert inflation, and newshawks put this together with previous dope stories that New York's Judge Rosenman had already submitted a tentative plan built around the formation of an Economic Stabilization Authority. To it might be named Leon Henderson, William H. Davis, Marriner Eccles, Henry Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, Claude Wickard and a chairman appointed by the President...
Complete independence for India may not be the solution to the basic problem. But whatever the solution, it is obvious that, left to themselves, the British and Indians will never find it in time. American intervention is a vital necessity if anything is to be done to avert the now apparently inevitable disaster--American intervention not as a stooge to Britain's aims, but as an impartial arbiter, treating India as an equal, and assuring the conquered peoples of the world that the Four Freedoms are more than hollow phrases...
...Harold Ickes was fighting for control of public power; the big new aluminum plants needed more power fast; copper for new wiring was short and the Army & Navy were screaming for all that was in sight. "Cap" Krug came through the test with colors flying: he did not completely avert power shortages, but he kept the huge new aluminum plants and all other war industries turning. Now he runs WPB's famed "Purp" (raw-materials allocation) plan...
Like hens in a gathering thunderstorm, the men of good will hoped that somehow a miracle would avert a deluge of chaos, anarchy and civil war. Only the little man remained calm. U.S. Correspondent A. T. Steele, visiting his retreat at Sevagram last week, described it as "a dude ranch, a Father Divine 'heaven,' a Mennonite colony, a collective farm and an agricultural station, with everybody a vegetarian." There Mohandas K. Gandhi relaxed, listened to his inner voice, took abdominal mudbaths to husband his waning strength...