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Rooseveltian candor, Rooseveltian liberalism, Rooseveltian charm, some people thought, had insensibly softened stern Critic Borah. His favorite topic, unforgiveness of War debts, was practically shelved by the new Administration. Relief was being doled in quantities of which he approved. He championed silver and the President gave him and his fellows the Silver Purchase Act. When the Recovery Act was under debate he succeeded in inserting a provision on another of his favorite subjects?forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter...
...such a boisterously ironic tone, well calculated to soothe skeptics into pleased attention, does "Unofficial Observer" launch his Who's Who of the New Deal. Plain citizens will be impressed by his breezy air of impartiality and impatient candor. But this hard-boiled patter thinly cloaks an earnest enthusiasm for the Administration and most of its works. More effective as propaganda for the New Deal than would be the paean of a paid publicity man, The New Dealers well deserves the Order of the Blue Eagle, first class...
...Diminutive Lauren Gilfillan graduated from Smith College in 1931 and, like many of her generation, could find no job. So she decided to go to a Pennsylvania mining town, write a book about it. The result of her adventures is an absorbingly interesting record, written with such artful candor that it reads like a first-rate novel. I Went to Pit College will be an eye opener to anyone who supposes that a serious book about striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except...
Bookkeeping. Presidential candor rather than the extent of U. S. spending made the budget "staggering." If he had chosen to view the Government's finances as tycoons viewed their companies' finances in 1929-even as President Hoover did, and he himself last summer-he might have composed the same facts into a far milder picture. Hitherto RFC outlays have never been treated as expenditures. The RFC secured cash by selling its debentures to the Treasury. The Treasury treated the transaction not as an expenditure but as an investment (which it nominally was). Thus...
...forced every salary in Italy, all rent, light, heat, food and transport charges down between 10% and 12%. Details of the new cuts were being worked out last week by the Ministry of Corporations- the Minister of Corporations being Benito Mussolini. With the candor of the strong, Il Duce recently admitted that Italy's exports have fallen off badly, thus necessitating his new move to increase exports by cutting prices. According to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini, Italy exported in the third quarter of 1933 barely 15% of what she sent abroad in the same quarter a year...