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...partnership between himself and each of the country's 5,000,000 employers "to raise wages, create employment and thus increase purchasing power and restore business." Behind the orders loomed the threat of a new and near economic crisis. For weeks the Government had been ding-donging warnings about the unnatural increase in industrial production which had left the nation's buying power, as represented by low wages, far behind. The rise in wholesale prices General Johnson called "appalling." Putting trade codes through the Washington mill had proved a slow, cumbersome process. Only one had been completed...
...Balance! Balance!" During the first week of the hearing Big Business ding-donged one idea into the Senators' ears: BALANCE THE BUDGET. Witness after witness from Wall Street could see no salvation for the country until the Government ruthlessly cut expenses, lived within its income. To this necessity they subordinated foreign debts, tariffs, jobless relief, railroads, public works and the large variety of panaceas put forward by more imaginative but less substantial citizens. Bernard Mannes Baruch had sounded the keynote the opening day: "Put Federal credit beyond peradventure of a doubt. . . . No nation ever dared to incur deficits...
...Continued) velt drive toward the White House without being ill-tempered or gloomy. A favorite "Ding" theme derives from the Republican charge that Governor Roosevelt has neglected to keep his own state in economic order, has permitted stock speculators, crooked bankers, corrupt Tammany politicians and criminals in general to run riot through New York while he was trying to sell his presidential services to the country at large. Before the conventions he drew a memorable picture entitled "The Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts...
...famed "Ding" character is the stalwart, chin-whiskered Iowa farmer, sound of sense and strong of spirit. Last week at Van Meter. Iowa, death came to white-bearded, 85-year-old Samuel H. Cook who 20 years ago first inspired Cartoonist Darling with his rural character. Mr. Cook appeared at Mr. Darling's office door at the Des Moines Register. Declared Mr. Darling last week: "As I looked up I saw a commanding figure 6 ft. tall, with the strength of a giant in his powerful hands and arms. With his ruddy cheeks, blue overalls and a kindly twinkle...
...Ding" substitute in the Tribune syndicate is Edward Scott Brown who once sought gold in the Klondike, later found it on his bristol-board. He, like "Ding," uses no idea...