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...Conant's plea, those who have the opportunities of the best education attainable continue to think in after life as they have been instructed in college, the light of truth now burning so precariously, should gleam more brightly than ever once the present crisis is passed. Minorities will always govern mankind; why not the educated, instead of the corrupt...
From the first, Housing Administrator Moffett met obstacles. The campaign mapped out for him called for: 1) modernization of 13,000,000 buildings in the U. S. ; 2) stimulation of a new building boom. Since both aims were to be accomplished without direct use of govern ment money, Mr. Moffett calculated that the Housing Administration would not need to hire more than 500 employes. On some days during the past month as many as 6,000 jobhunters haunted his offices. Politicians pulled wires on every side. By last week he finally had 250 carefully chosen employes, including his assistant. Albert...
...dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind of free press that Mussolini enjoys. When a newspaper offended him he confiscated its owners' property, paid for it in worthless bonds. His laws were...
...benefit of a British correspondent and shouted: "At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the Nazi movement will go on for 1,000 years! . . . Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany. They laugh now, just as foolishly, when I declare that I shall remain in power...
Meanwhile, Chairman Jesse Jones announced a set of regulations to govern RFC loans to industry under the new law, which authorizes total RFC loans of $300,000,000, Federal Reserve Bank loans of $280,000,000. The law stipulates that adequate security must be put up, that no loans may be made to a company if it can borrow from commercial banks. Chair-man Jones's regulations were even more stringent: 1) Loans will be made primarily to supply working capital as opposed to fixed capital, but may not be used for large scale expansion or to finance exports...