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...battle is on. Smart politician that he is, Roosevelt could not keep the inflation issue from coming to the front. Since his inauguration it has hung ominously in the background. The inflationists have never been very quiet, and within recent weeks their meagre squeal has grown into a major howl. But only in the last week have any considerable "sound money" jitters become noticeable. First Barney Baruch, adviser extraordinary to the New Deal, pronounces his opposition, and then comes the electric shock of Professor Sprague's desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones...
...anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction of a substantial trade between America and the Soviet Maritime Provinces might contain irritating implications if Japanese invasion caused it to be broken off. The howl which would ascend to the starry skies of our Western states, ably supported by the Yellow Peril agitators of California and elsewhere, might put even a moderately sane Washington government temporarily out of its head. Such things have occurred before. CASTOR...
...practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss" was price-fixing and nothing more. Consumers' leagues, Granges, the American Farm Bureau Federation sniffed a rat and began to howl. To these groups price-fixing in any form meant only one thing: a deliberate attempt to gouge the public...
Until last year Radio was permitted to help itself to the news of press associations and most newspapers, the only price being the broadcast announcement of credit. Following last November's national election, publishers set up such a howl over being scooped by Radio at the Press's own cost, that the practice was stopped. The present rule is that no news agency may supply news to any radio network. Member newspapers of Associated Press and United Press operating their own broadcasting stations may broadcast locally bulletins limited to 30 words...
SIrs: A new contributor to your Letters column, I address this not to the always courteous editors, but to the embittered and insulting Mr. Leonard J. (for Justice?) Bernheim of Chicago. He has apparently been stung by the Alimony Bug or he would not howl so loudly...