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WHAT has happened in the first year of the new deal may be historically interesting but practically it is significant only insofar as it tells us what is going to happen in the second year, and maybe the third and thereafter...
...Roosevelt is the product of a political deal insofar as the nomination was concerned. But had it not been for Arthur Mullen's keen management of the Roosevelt strategy there might have been a collapse of the Roosevelt delegations. For the moment they started deserting it would have been like the champ Clark ascendency in 1912, when his followers had achieved a majority but Wilson came from behind and won the nomination
...Whitney's precipitation of the familiar conflict between government by statute and government by permanent commission dwindles into insignificance. The immediate effect of all securities legislation must, practically by definition, be a reduction in the total amount of new flotations. And as this reduction actually takes place, recovery is insofar postponed...
...most capable teachers. The President has other uses for the money and other plan for the faculty. He has chosen a way calculated to add to the prestige of the University, but not to further the development of a better educational system. The undergraduate can only hope that insofar as the ideals embodied in Dean Hanford's report are not incompatible with the announced aims of the University, they will not be neglected in the enthusiasm of making Harvard a community of creative scholars...
...Insofar as the NRA works to diminish poverty it is worth supporting because there is a direct relation between poverty and crime. The criminal is usually from the poorer classes and being continually oppressed by the rich from childhood, he eventually commits some act against them that brings him before the courts. Once sent to the penitentiary there is little hope for him. No man that goes in comes out improved and ninety per cent of them are recommitted...