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...National Recovery Administration is a failure in its main purpose, that of increasing consumer purchasing power," said Bruce Bliven, President of the board of editors of the New Republic at a joint meeting of the Harvard Inquiry and the Politics Club, presided over by Arthur N. Bolcombe '06, last night in Lowell House Common Room. "As a matter of fact," continued Mr. Bliven, "there has been a decrease in purchasing power, rather than the expected increase, although there has been in aggregate purchasing power...
Concerning the farm situation, Mr. Bliven said, "The strikes amount to very little, the strikers are a minority, and the strikes as a whole are on the wane. They have been caused mostly by populist agitation taking advantage of the desperate condition of the farmer." Mr. Bliven also brought up the monstrosity of plowing under perfectly good crops when twenty-five million people are starving, and said that the farmer clearly realizes this...
...whatever reason," said Mr. Bliven, "the depression appears to have been definitely halted...
...Bliven feels that uncontrolled, disastrous inflation is unlikely, since up to now we've had no real inflation, but merely a reduction in the gold content of the dollar. This in other countries has been the end of inflation, not the forerunner. Charging that the people who are now raising the cry about the danger of uncontrolled inflation are creditors trying to protect their own interests against debtors, Mr. Bliven said that to him "it is unconceivable that the richest country in the world should go in for uncontrolled inflation. I don't believe the gold buying plan amounts...
...Harvard Inquiry. In honor of Mr. Steffens a dinner will be held at Kirkland House preceding the lecture. Guests at the dinner will be Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics; Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History; Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; and Bruce Bliven, editor of the "New Republic...