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...last week. General Johnson felt that some such summary step was necessary to help purchasing power and consumption catch up with production and prevent a fresh collapse. He drafted a 35-hour, $14-per-week sample but nowhere in the Recovery Act could his lawyers find authority to compel industries to accept such a set of regulations until they framed their own. Over the week-end General Johnson put up to the President a proposal for issuing such a temporary general code and following it up with a Wartime publicity campaign to induce all employers to subscribe voluntarily...
...years imprisonment and $10,000 fine started a golden flood back to the Government which up to last week exceeded $800,000,000. But because thousands and thousands of citizens had never heard of the President's order or thought he was bluffing on his power to compel an exchange of metal for paper, $604,408,985 in gold and gold certificates remained outside the pale May 31. This last-stand hoarding constituted a challenge to the Government's power and prestige which President Roosevelt would not brook...
...Passed a railroad emergency bill providing for: 1) a Federal coordinator to compel operating economies and eliminate duplicate service; 2) a broader rate-making basis for Interstate Commerce Commission; 3) I. C. C. control of railroad holding companies; 4) repeal of the recapture-of-excess-profits clause; sent the bill to the House...
...Harvard and Yale." Later: "Perhaps I should have included Princeton." Next day Col. McCormick was neatly pinked by genial Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Dean Gauss said he knew only one Red and a few Pinks among Princeton's 2,200 undergraduates. Did Col. McCormick advocate that "we compel all undergraduates to live on the same dead level of Spartan simplicity, and abolish inequalities of wealth?" To Dean Gauss that sounded like Communism. "Why deny to the undergraduates the privileges which Col. McCormick enjoys, if he is lucky enough to have any?" And Dean Gauss pointed out that students...
...name is permanently associated with the classical tradition to which he was temperamentally allied. Genius in teaching, divorced from original scholarship, is not always a thing which a great university remembers with adequate gratitude: happily in Professor Palmer's case it was allied with a personality and associations which compel recognition even from those who came to Harvard too late for the actual experience...