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Because Roosevelt Recovery, from both Depression I and Depression II, stimulated consumer industries (liquor, shoes, automobiles, etc.) but left heavy industry (steel, coal, railroads, etc.) in the lurch, no genuine U. S. prosperity has resulted. Last week one grandiose cure-all and one specific remedy were expounded before a Senate sub-committee considering incentive taxation as a spur to industrial adoption of profit-sharing plans (TIME...
...State Constitution lowering the real-estate tax ceiling to ten mills. Since then the National Association of Manufacturers and other industrial interests have defeated attempts to get other revenues through higher income taxes. Meanwhile the State school aid fund has fallen $17,000,000 behind, left localities in the lurch. Only solution is special local tax levies by cities. One after another, all large Ohio cities except Dayton voted such levies, in some cases, notably in Cincinnati and Springfield, after schools closed...
TIME keeps many a seaman from being left in the lurch about what the world is doing, and FORTUNE is so damned fascinating that the educational articles are fed to us with the sugar coated pill of entertainment. An easy pill for all hands to swallow...
...long-time Bank of France executive and about as radical as Virginia's Carter Glass. In his speech Premier Blum had smoothly avoided replying to taunts that he himself seemed to have become about as radical as Britain's Ramsay MacDonald and to be leaving in the lurch the French proletariat-but the Communists and Socialists did not last week leave M. Blum, as English Laborites turned from Mr. MacDonald. The Reds scowled, but voted for the financial volte-face of Blum, the Pinks voted for it, and virtually the whole Chamber voted for it by the tremendous...
Through the parlor trick he will never lurch...