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...hated by Herbert Hoover, Mencken, Hitler and Mussolini is good enough liberal for most...
...suggest that a "liberal" is one who desires and works for greater freedom of thought and action for others. Examples: the barons at Runnymede, Martin Luther, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Herbert Hoover...
...Landon of Topeka, Kans., and Col, Frank Knox of Chicago, guests at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, paid a 15-minute call on fellow guest Herbert Hoover...
...easier to cut hours than rates. As usual in depressions, payrolls have dropped faster than jobs. In a year, the Labor Department's index of factory employment has gone down 22%, payrolls 33%. Both have moved faster in the Roosevelt Depression than in the first year of Hoover's: from October 1929 to October 1930 factory employment fell 20%, payrolls...
Early in the Great Depression, President Hoover pledged industrialists to maintain wages in spite of falling prices. Since he has assumed the whip, President Roosevelt has continually tried to force wages higher as a prosperity measure. Now, in immediate prospect is an increase to a flat nation-wide minimum of 40 cents an hour together with a 40 hour per week maximum. These measures have arisen out of a native confidence in under-consumption theories of depression. Two administrations have assumed that the path of roses to prosperity lies in boosting wage incomes so that laborers buy more...