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Broadly speaking, the crux of the argument consists in a belief that the rule of the people, fumbling though it often is will ultimately result in fewer mistakes than any dictatorship of a self-appointed clite. Faced by a new aristocracy of the "expert," Professor Friedrich, himself a high ranking member of that aristocracy, is still sufficiently plebian to assert his faith in the common man's capacity for self-government. This faith is "an extraordinary one." Historically considered, it has often remained inarticulate, since by nature "the intellectual is predisposed toward the uncommon man: he strives to be uncommon...
Those sales have little or no effect on current purchasing power. The little fellow, crux of the inflation problem, was not being deflated. Moreover, although "voluntary" bond sales ran to big totals, against these totals stood war expenditures fit to grey the hair of any fiscal officer...
...crux of the ceiling problem is that, at some point-as the prices fixed by a free economy in the spring of 1942 become increasingly maladjusted to a rapidly changing economy-it will become totally unfair and unrealistic to expect ceilings to be enforced by anyone's patriotism, be he manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer or consumer. And at that point, whenever it comes, the final necessities of price control will have to be dealt with. Chief among these necessities: 1) complete licensing and rationing; 2) rigid Government mopping up of a large part of consumer income via taxes and compulsory...
...into three equal terms, and decided to hobble on two regular semesters from September to June, plus a jammed-up twelve week summer session, with no reading period and no time for tutorial work. They have not given us the time for tutorial in the summer--that is the crux of the matter. Instead, they have shaped something like a round wheel with a slice lopped off of one side, and asked us to make the cart go even faster than ever before...
...cuts proposed, said Bob La Follette, would fall on the neck of "the very lowest income groups among our population," would cripple programs of social reform which are "vital to the successful conduct of total war. . . . No one can disagree with the general objective," added La Follette. "The crux of the matter is . . . 'where is the waste...