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...lawyer, General Johnson left the White House as soon as the President had issued his statement. Unofficially he had been talking to industrialists for weeks about the Recovery Act. That evening he was scheduled to speak to harassed soft-coal men in Chicago. When his airplane was grounded by fog at Pittsburgh. General Johnson addressed his audience by radio. He strongly urged his distant hosts to "put into effect provisions which you find necessary to protect the willing and the forward-looking among your members from the racketeers and price-cutters and those who are willing to take advantage...
...with half an eye to fundamentals they were confusing; to the "floater" they will appear thorough. At a time when the greatest need in the world is for clear thinking and courageous definition of basic values and problems, these two men had nothing to offer but fog. It was apparently not without purpose that President Lowell urged last Sunday, "one must endeavor to distinguish between the enduring and the temporary, between the things essential to the framework of every good human society, and the expedients useful for the moment, not letting these impair the permanent structure...
...Breton, Argentine Ambassador to France, crossed the Atlantic to talk trade agreements with the President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers of the New York Stoats-Zeitung, present as an official greeter, tried to press-muzzle him, the tall square-faced president of the Reichsbank resentfully exploded: "When...
Trippers on the Furness liner Queen of Bermuda last week were treated to a demonstration of a new aid to mariners-a device which pierces fog and darkness to tell the navigator what obstacles lie near his ship. Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil calls the device a "fog-eye." To watch its first seagoing performance a group of U. S. and British naval observers, merchant marine experts, physicists made the trip to Bermuda. Lack of fog on the outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news...
Commander Wiley, who had himself declared an "interested party'' (technical defendant ) in order to attend private hearings and examine witnesses, was firm in defense of Captain McCord's navigation. The weather forecast, he recalled, was for light wind and fog. When lightning was sighted below Philadelphia Captain McCord changed the course from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told...