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The Cons. No one could quarrel with the Treasury's basic aim. But plenty of critics had knives stropped for the specific Treasury formula. The Wall Street Journal, seeing bureaucracy under the bed, spoke darkly of "socialization of foreign investment and . . . nationalization of property ownership." And a good many...
The Cons. Bill Patterson had scarcely stopped talking when the let's-compete school spoke up again. Speaking before the Pittsburgh Rotary Club, C. Bedell Monro, Pennsylvania Central Airlines' seadrome-enthusiast president (TIME, May 24), lashed out against the "anesthesia of complacent monopoly." He insisted that the reason...
The Cons. The anti-subsidizers' position is a complex mixture of selfishness ("a higher price for me would only add .0001% to the cost of living"); of sound economics; and of the ancient fear of free men who see the bogey of Federal controls now expanded in new areas...
Once again all the old weary arguments, the passionate pros and cantankerous cons, were being voiced. The young sailor squirmed and fidgeted.
Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing's famed warden, who retired in 1941 with his eye on farming, literature, Hollywood, radio, was up to his ears in war work: needling prisons into greater farm production, getting model prisoners freed (and ex-cons okayed) for service in the armed forces.