Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declaring that the NRA was invented to prevent Congress from fixing prices hostile to the interests of big business, John T. Flynn, noted economist, prophesied the coming of dictatorship in this country in a speech last night in the New Lecture Hall...
...Flynn stated that the New Deal's crime against the democratic state was that it grants the President power to surrender the control of the economic life of the people to trade associations and large corporations. He expected to see legal control of labor unions followed by the cooperative state, the disappearance of democracy, and a slow but sure movement toward absolute dictatorship...
...John T. Flynn, noted economist, author, and speaker, will deliver an address an current economic problems at a meeting sponsored by the Liberal Club this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...great demand as a public speaker, Mr. Flynn addressed a meeting of the Ford Hall Forum last night, speaking on the subject: "If I Were President." Mr. Flynn's last appearance before a Harvard audience was two years ago, at which time he spoke before the Harvard Inquiry on the subject of security speculation. He is the author of such books as "Security Speculation: Its Economic Effects," "Graft in Business," "God's Gold: John D. Rockefeller and His Times," "Graft in Business," and "Investment Trusts Gone Wrong...
...Flynn's last speech before a Harvard audience was two years ago. In regard to the address on Monday evening, Victor H. Kramer '35, president of the Liberal Club, issued the following statement: "Mr. Flynn, from the point of view of technique in speaking, is probably one of the most magnetic and compelling of the speakers whom the Liberal Club has presented to Harvard audiences in the past. In addition, his factual knowledge of the American business scene is probably exceeded by no present day journalist...