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...bewildered electorate he boomed: "The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. . . . Americans as a whole are feeling a lot better-a lot more cheerful than for many, many years...
...iron and coal is wholly commendable but undoubtedly the difficulties which have arisen from the collective bargaining clause have caused deviations from the intended course. The wrong ideas which were incorporated in haste now stand out more clearly. Honest constructive criticism which will separate the wheat from the chaff is needed to set the NRA buck on its course. No thoughtless and prejudiced bombardment can help...
...first problem is one of separating the wheat from the chaff; a problem which cannot be solved by the impersonal machinery of College Entrance Examinations, or by any of the existing connections between Harvard College and the United States high schools at large. The private schools, great and small, by their private telephone lines to the Office of Admissions, have a system for recommending a promising student which the distant public school has not got; a system simplified by the general Harvard-mindedness of most intellectually active private school boys and their school masters. To keep the brilliant Middle Westerner...
...Deal' is a moderate, objectively studied plan to put the nation on a new road. There have been mistakes made, and there will be others, but by following the methods of a scientist, the President has pledged himself to take these mistakes into account, select the wheat from the chaff, and modify his policy to meet and withstand the conditions that caused them...
SEAMAN (Owen) Harvest of Chaff...