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This year when Wallace revamped Agriculture (primarily to lessen the conspicuousness and vulnerability of AAA by splitting its functions among other divisions), he upped four trusted men to the chief jobs around him. Bald Howard R. Tolley, a thinker like his boss, was relieved of his tasks as Administrator to head the revamped Bureau of Agriculture Economics. Economist Albert G. Black, an energetic, 42-year-old idea man, was given Marketing & Regulation. Promoted to head new divisions were Soil Conserver H. H. Bennett (Physical Land Use) and Chemist Henry G. Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these...
...Today, however, the judiciary is inadequate in this necessary purpose--inadequate not in that its methods are not efficient, but because of the many problems this century presents, all of which lessen effective administration by the judges...
Pensively the Vagabond flicked a key of his Old Underwood. Would it still be able to unravel those neat, printed letters which somehow lessen the chaos of thought? Could it still supply the right word, the proper touch to sentences in this foreign atmosphere? Then suddenly, in the vast loneliness of unfamiliar surroundings, he remembered again how Freshmen feel. How awful and unhuman and unknowable college seems. How important and lightning and complicated a History 1 lecture can sound. How vast and impersonal and uninterested the Union can feel. How suave and learned and acquainted everyone else can seem when...
...string of 19 wholesome family newspapers, mostly in upstate New York, promptly accepted: ''No American could refuse the nomination for the Presidency." He even offered a platform: "I should reverse the Roosevelt policy and compose a constructive program to restore prosperity, bring employment to the idle, lessen the burden of taxation and encourage business and the growth of abundancy...
...year investigation of the farm-equipment industry by proposing a major change in the 24-year-old Clayton Anti-Trust Act. This product of the first trust-busting era made it illegal for one company to purchase the capital stock of another when the result might substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. FTC claims that the farm-equipment industry is an example of this law's effective evasion through the purchase of competitors' assets rather than stock. FTC therefore recommended to Congress that the Clayton Act be revised so that no company controlling...