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...simple, direct statements of policy the President can dispel the doubts and fears which paralyze business and prevent recovery. By promising to balance the budget in the near future, by assuring industry that the government will not tolerate attempts at domination by labor, by pledging non-partisan distribution of federal funds, and the maintenance of national credit, he can aid in breaking the present dam which is keeping billions of dollars from normal investment. Retracting his oft-repeated thrusts at the banking profession he can bring about that salutary cooperation between government and finance which has been...
...Meyer, Republican ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and by Democratic ex-governor William E. Sweet of Colorado, a National Institution of Public Affairs will pick students this fall from colleges and universities all over the country and take them to Washington for two months' "internship" in 1935. Non-partisan, privately financed, and self-governing, the Institution will have the cooperation of the federal government for its course in practical government. Conferences with high officials and tutorial study groups for individual contacts will from the preparation for a thesis every student will write on a particular administrative problem...
...line has always been even more tightly drawn that the Supreme Court should remain an independent, non-partisan body, subject only to that bedraggled document, the Constitution. The moment that a Justice begins to advise on matters of public moment, his position begins to loss its sanctity, and he becomes subordinate to the political views of the Executive. Perhaps the tendency to concentrate the government in the Executive branch may continue, but until approval is won after serious debate, even such capable men as Judge Brandeis must assist in preserving the present structure of government...
...young men of Harvard who had strong Communist feelings, Cherington pointed out that the Critic's now deal was to be in the form of running the paper as a voice for all who desired to express their opinions. It will be put out on a non-partisan basis with an eye to giving anyone a chance to write for it who has determined convictions and desires to have the public hear about them...
While President Roosevelt has been boasting of the non-partisan character of his Administration, Jim Farley has been adroitly staffing the Government with deserving Democrats-and nobody else. He has found, for instance, that he can palm off almost anyone on Attorney General Cummings but that Relief Administrator Hopkins is excessively choosey about who goes on his payroll. Despite Washington mutterings at the potentialities of scandal, the Farley appointments have been no better, no worse than those of preceding Republican administrations. Human nature being what it is. Mr. Farley has made isolated mistakes but by & large the new Democratic jobholders...