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...Club (Harvardese for Alpha Delta Phi of which it was once a chapter*) was in 1929 when as Governor of New York, celebrating his 25th Harvard reunion, he sat down and pounded the piano for his fellow Flies and allowed them to kid him about that great political flop, the Democratic Party. Last week he was there not to be kidded, but to celebrate, to witness the initiation of Son Franklin Jr. into the club...
...should any such thing happen? Labor has called NRA a snare and delusion. General Johnson called it a dead dodo. As a Recovery measure New Dealers have privately admitted it is a flop. Untold manufacturers kick about its theory and its practice. The case of Fred Perkins was a shrill public indictment. The success of its enforcement is compared to that of Prohibition. Certain Senators seize every opportunity to denounce it as an oppressor of honest business. Its advocates are few and its critics many. How can its renewal be a certainty or even a possibility...
...resolution. Says he could tell by his questions to counsel. But he expounded to me a view which I have heard elsewhere to the effect that F. D., is sick of the whole gold policy and is anxious to use adverse court decision as an excuse for dropping a flop in monetary economics. But I'll tell you one thing sure. F. D. will not advocate a Congressional statute to increase the membership on the court, regardless of the decision. He has a tremendous respect for the Constitution and the Court, as an institution. Of course...
...tell a good joke, and just what distinguishes a belly-buster from a total flop is the subject of a recent thesis compiled by Dr. Richard N. Sears '27 under the auspices of the Psychology Department...
...worthless check, a total wreck, a flop...