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...case for Aid to the Small Democracies becomes clearer and more powerful every day. Salient and unanswerable arguments are gaining more and more prominence, restating and implementing Hoover's idea of "stiffening the morale" of the conquered peoples. Keeping these people from starvation is, they say, a better weapon against totalitarianism than the weapons of force. The failure to do so would, it is claimed, drive the small people into the arms of the Nazis because they will hate Britain and America. This may be putting it too strongly, it is true. There is plenty of evidence of chafing under...
These were the sober words of a man who weighs his words, a man who sees the job of armament as clearly as any man and clearer than most: Donald Marr Nelson, Director of the Division of Purchases for the Office of Production Management...
This must sound ludicrous to any one who has had a taste of economic theory at Harvard. Nobody has yet gained a clearer judgment of New Deal Economics from the graphs and curves and trends of Ec A or 1. The reason is that economic theory, when isolated from the forces that condition it, remains litle more than abstract quibbling for its own sake. The Harvard Department's "vacuum" approach to theory is, at best, a mental discipline, and as such much inferior to mathematics...
...considerably longer and later than Adolf Hitler's. Perhaps he knew what he was doing. Better than anyone else he knew that, while the U. S. now had no usable military or diplomatic weapons, it had one still-powerful force: gold. What he was up to became clearer after China got $100,000,000 ($50,000,000 to balance the Chinese dollar, $50,000,000 in war credits). Last week to Argentina went $50,000,000-a loan observers agreed would go chiefly to aid Britain. Talk was heard that the U. S. should buy or seize...
When a newsman asked him for the significance of the discovery, Dr. Mees cracked back: "What is the significance of a newborn baby?" This riposte was not original with him.* Plausible assumption: that better knowledge of the grainy structure of films will sooner or later lead to better pictures, clearer enlargements...