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...President was granted $600 million to lend as he sees fit to expand the industrial war effort; another $1.4 billion would be provided for the same purpose later on. Firms could be exempted from antitrust laws, when, working in combination, they furthered the defense effort...
...prophetic beginning for the week. The war news from Korea continued to be encouraging, but everywhere else the President looked, things seemed to be going wrong. Congress was bent on compelling him to lend money against his will to Franco, and was loading his war-powers bill with restrictions he didn't want. When Virginia's mild, inoffensive Senator Willis Robertson called about something else, the President stared at him with cold and glittering eyes and expressed his outrage at Congress in direct, unvarnished words...
...more. "Then began that long journey which parents of such children know so well . . . We take our children over the surface of the whole earth, seeking the one who can heal. We spend all the money we have and we borrow until there is no one else to lend. We go to doctors good and bad, to anyone, for only a wisp of hope...
...Burial? Nobody could prove anything shady or illegal about the Mapes Hotel loan, but neither could anybody prove that the RFC's action looked very smart. There was a more basic question: Was it a proper Government function in boom times to lend money to businesses where private bankers refused to tread? Wasn't RFC too often supporting an army of potential bankrupts, to keep them going against sharper competitors...
...then a music and drama critic for the Winston-Salem, N.C. Journal. Six months ago, Publisher Ethridge decided that his son ought to "cram as much experience into his skull" as it would hold. He persuaded Viscount Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, to try an experiment in lend-lease. In return for Rothermere's hiring Mark Jr. on a temporary basis, Publisher Ethridge agreed to hire a Daily Mailman. As of last week, Lord Rothermere had not yet picked his man, so Trader Ethridge still had the best of the bargain...