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...Carpet. Some of industry's best friends in Congress disagreed. Vermont's Senator Ralph K. Flanders, himself an industrialist, reminded the steel managers that they had a responsibility beyond making money for their stockholders. Said he: "Apparently the steel industry does not yet realize.. . . that its decisions on prices must be in the public interest as well as its private interest." A top Republican policymaker in Congress, who had been neck-deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly...
...York World), Charley was hired in 1929 by John J. Raskob, then Democratic National chairman, in an effort to rebuild the party. A master of the sly phrase and rankling innuendo, he painted the Republicans as inept, as the party of privilege, of the "corporation lawyer" and the rich industrialist. He hung the depression around Hoover's neck and kept it there. He made a mockery of Hoover's optimism and never let the country forget Hoover's theme that prosperity was just around the corner. He never let succeeding G.O.P. candidates forget Hoover's prediction...
...What Industrialist Wilson wanted to hear was a guarantee from unions that they would not ask for a third round of wage increases next year. If such a guarantee was given, he said, then industry could afford to roll back prices next year...
...fellow Senators last week in voting to oust Communists from public office.* An influential member of anti-Communist President Dutra's party, he barely won his seat last January over Communist Candido Portinari, Brazil's greatest painter. His own anti-Red views are well known. Besides, Industrialist-Economist Simonsen is a top-rank spokesman for São Paulo's bustling industry, and Communists are bad for business...
...Thinker. A stocky, powerfully built man with a scholar's face, Simonsen is not just a moneymaker. Intellectual as well as industrialist, he founded the São Paulo School of Economics, has written 17 books, including the definitive two-volume Economic History of Brazil. Recently he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He is president of the Brazilian Red Cross, belongs to a hatful of foreign scientific societies. In the Senate, where he is regarded as the best-dressed member, Simonsen takes his work seriously. He seldom speaks from the floor, but puts in hard licks...