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Time to Rest. Congressional leaders had already warned the President not to try to get any firmer grip on wages and farm prices. They warned him that he could not, told him to use executive and persuasive powers he already has. At week's end he had apparently decided to compromise, somehow, with the public demand for action. Anyway, Congress coolly went home on a five to six weeks' vacation, for a little political fence mending...
...other countries of the world will be impoverished by the fight. We know that at the end of the struggle we will still have two Herculean tasks: helping to create a better peace than the last one and setting this country back on its feet on a firmer basis than it was in 1919. And yet, knowing all this, we are willing to go ahead...
Despite the 6.4-million-ton shortage already in sight, Mr. Dunn's second report took a stand against wholesale expansion even firmer than his first. Stacy May, head statistician for OPM, had predicted a 1942 demand of 120.4 million tons, almost 30 million tons above present capacity. Mr. Dunn regarded this figure as inflated, notably on the side of civilian needs.* He therefore shaved it to 102 million tons, for a starter. Then he averaged it with American Iron & Steel Institute's lower estimate (92.6 million tons), with the frank admission that either figure might be right. This...
...ideas with which I first ventured forth. My first book contains almost all the windmills against which today I tilt." In the light of history, especially from 1920 to 1940, he finds liberal optimism about the goodness of man untenable. Therefore he has set out to formulate a firmer faith in God based on much less faith in his fellow...
Perhaps the other side, which seems to me on incomparably firmer ground, also buttresses its position with wishful thinking...