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...With President Roosevelt impatient to get his last major code out of the way, General Johnson gave his off-hand opinion of Article VIII: "Economists say this invoice cost plus 10% is pyramiding, but I can't see that. We want to stop widespread price-cutting. There isn't a business that can make a retail turnover on less than 10%. There are some esoteric arguments made against the plan, but I can't see them...
...brothers will testify that "Rufe" has shown those same qualities ever since. Quiet, retiring, the family scholar, he has kept on pulling the stroke oar, a sagely sober counselor and friend to his brothers. He cannot remember off-hand how many utilities companies he has headed. He was economic adviser to the U. S. experts who drafted his brother's "Dawes Plan," assistant to Owen D. Young when Mr. Young was Agent General of Reparations. Sir Josiah Stamp has called him one of the U. S.'s greatest economists. Yet until he took the Chicago Fair...
...breakdown is the result of any inherent inadequacy in the system in the face of modern technology and the growing complexity of world economy. Socialism he dismisses with an exclamation mark and a "God forbid." Socialism is very possibly not the right solution, but it can hardly be rejected off-hand without so much as the suggestion of an alternative solution...
Associated Gas & Electric's progress has shown Mr. Hopson's deft accounting touches. Few in Wall Street except statisticians have ever mastered completely the complex A. G. & E. setup, yet Mr. Hopson is said to know off-hand every detail of its multitudinous preferred stocks and bonds and the issues of its subsidiary companies. He is the man who is thought to have worked towards one end recently: the substitution of A. G. & E. preferred stocks wherever possible in the place of subsidiaries' securities. Accomplishment of that end to a great degree has placed A. G. & E. in a stronger...
...other nationalities, their only recourse is to the Council of the League, which under the treaties, is to safeguard their interests. Off-hand this would appear to be a good arrangement and to provide sufficient protection. The League Council has, in fact, done good work in smoothing over difficulties of a minor nature and in paving the way to better relationship through gentle pressure upon various governments. But it has been, to date, unable to handle the larger issues satisfactorily. After all, the League Council is the organ of the larger powers and in its discussions the conflicting interests...