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...Roosevelt said a few weeks age that he likened himself to the quarterback in a football game. He needs to take care not to become the football instead." Thus Mr. Bruce Bliven, editor and publisher of "The New Republic," who is spending a few days in Boston, one of the points in a survey he is making of New England, summarized the position of the President in Washington...
...Tremendously powerful forces are now pressing the President to be more conservative," Mr. Bliven continued. "Other forces, not so powerful, but strong, are pressing him to be more radical. If the administration is to succeed, Roosevelt must remain the master of his own destinies however strong the opposition...
...answer to the question of whether the President's plan is a success or a failure, Mr. Bliven felt, was impossible because there is not one plan, but five or six, and they cannot be judged except separately. However, he enumerated several of the accomplishments that have been made since the President took office. First, the confidence in the banking system, which was completely lacking last March, has been restored. In addition, the decline of business has been halted, and wholesale prices have turned up for the first time (except momentarily) since the depression began. Between three and four million...
...farm situation in the Middle West and its relation to the New Dean will be the subject of Mr. Bliven's address before the Harvard Inquiry in the Lowell House common room at 7.45 o'clock on Monday evening. An open forum will follow the speech, which will be open to the public...
...Bliven, who was born in Iowa, has recently returned from a trip through the discontented farming sections and is expected to give authentic information on the conditions he found. A summary of his views, entitled "The Corn Belt Cracks Down," appeared in the New Republic on November...