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With the end of the war, which halted a wartime full employment in this country, there has come a companion feature, paradoxical in its implications--the idea that the dismal period of the Twenties, roaring boom and tragic bust, will be repeated. Fritz Sternberg not only believes that the future will follow the same cycle, but that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult...
...days when twenty percent of those seeking jobs are frustrated, and the economy functions at a fraction of capacity. Each side labor and management, could be satisfied in its demands, given a stable full employment economy. But in an economic organism subject to violent cyclical swings from boom to bust, each is out to get more than just a fair share. Both sides, labor and management want that "extra" which may mean the difference between life and death in the depression. The result is the upward spiral, and the crash...
...listen to the moneybags, something's bound to bust...
...America," with Kingdon and Davidson as cochairmen. From Henry Wallace, who had yet to make a go of it as an independent, the amalgamated left got its keynote: "To prevent the Republican Congress and the laissez-faire big businessmen from leading us down the high road of boom, bust...
William Shakespeare had had better weeks. In Stratford-on-Avon, a fire in the town hall destroyed the famed Gainsborough painting of the Bard's bust being leaned on by Actor David Garrick. In Chicago, Music Boss James Caesar Petrillo declared that Maurice Evans' Hamlet with incidental music was not a drama but a musical (and thus the incidental musicians got a pay boost...