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...provision against predatory price slashing is 'economically unsound' and 'unenforceable and 'rendered unnecessary by the wage-fixing rules.' I fear that they have prevailed and that new NRA legislation proposed by the Administration will follow this so-called view. It is a ghastly paradox and I will fight it with all that I have to give. Here we have self-styled reformers echoing the shibboleth of some of the most reactionary influences in this country. It is a shivering inconsistency, explicable only by the almost bucolic innocence of practical business experience in its proponents...
...paradox was it that the same men who solemnly predicted the country's doom less than two years ago when President Roosevelt set off upon the road to devaluation, were last week desperately afraid that a Supreme Court decision might right what they once conceived to have been a great wrong. It might be ironical but it was by no means illogical. For most businessmen the Administration's dollar tinkering brought little except uncertainty. Domestic prices failed to rise in proportion to the cut in the dollar's value, and debts, particularly corporate, remained almost as hard...
...academic community, has not firmly resolved to put in a hard day's work in Widener Library, of which we are so justly proud,--seventh largest in the world, with an untold number of volumes--only to find that the books required in courses are unavailable? Investigation reveals the paradox that there is but one copy in the entire university One copy, be it noted, of a book which is essential to the understanding of not only the course itself but of the lectures. Aside from the fact that such a situation is discouraging to the spirit of research which...
...Paradox though it may be, Harvard looked a good 50 per cent better while taking a 19-0 defeat from Princeton than it did a week ago during that tragic 10-0 whitewashing handed out by hard-driving Dartmouth. A week ago the situation looked hopeless; now there is some light ahead for the approaching Army game...
Author Wallace, who sees "the paradox of want amid plenty," thinks that government and business both will have to catch up to a new economics, in which unbridled competition will be a dead letter. As he hopefully envisages the future U. S. society, it will "recognize competitive individualists and competitive nations and deal with them, as the anachronisms they are, treating them kindly, firmly, and carefully...