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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt is studying an urgent recommendation from two of his chief homefront leaders that an overall administrator be appointed to stabilize the nation's chaotic food problems, it was reported tonight...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

...Crimson's editorialist of Oct. 9 and I disagree so completely that I cannot resist answering. He is right when he asserts that gross injustice prevailed in what he terms "the chaotic free enterprise of the twenties." But the injustice was not the fault of free enterprise at all. Cartels, tariffs, monopolies: these injustices of the twenties, and the thirties and forties, too, are all based upon the stifling of free enterprise. The beneficiaries of these devices, when challenged with their ill-gotten gains, habitually call upon free enterprise to sanctify them. Many reformers have never checked the validity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/13/1942 | See Source »

Personally, I think we shall win this war but only after tens of thousands of people have been needlessly killed, but let me offer this warning: If this generation of soldiers returns home to a collapsed and chaotic economic system due to inflation or any other cause that might easily have been prevented had the people but realized the dangers of their shortsightedness, we shall not stand docilely on street corners selling apples; we shall not ashamedly wait in line to receive bread. The American soldier is not a child who can easily be fooled, Dad; he is too well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...insulting disgrace to the intelligence of the American people. Under the innocent title of "Neo-liberal Illusion: That Collectivism is Liberty," it is an insidious attack on the principles of the government thrice chosen by the American electorate. On the surface, it calls for a return to the chaotic free enterprise of the twenties between the lines it is an incipient fascism threatening to destroy those principles for which the war is being fought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Post Turns Backwards | 10/9/1942 | See Source »

...Bill Jeffers tackled the chaotic Rubber Scandal this week in the hellbent, direct-action way he has run the Union Pacific Railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U. P. Snowplow | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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