Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabinet Members, when they speak solo, usually make headlines. Last week, in concert, they did nothing of the sort. At Nashville, Secretary Ickes drew a parallel between Andrew Jackson's struggle with the Bank of the United States and Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with "the hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats...
...distinction between the public-works program of the New Deal and that which Keynes is advocating in England. Said he: "President Roosevelt's policy, which was nevertheless very useful so long as it was pressed and saved the U.S. from grave disaster, was, of course, not a parallel case. It was largely devoted to improvising a system of relief and preventing a collapse of credit and general insolvency. Plans for increased capital expenditure on housing, public utility services and railroads were so completely unprepared that even today they are still in a state of preparation. And it is this...
Best-known Greek adventurers of all time have been Homer's Ulysses and the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions tycoon and Europe's ''Mystery Man." Until last week, no one thought of drawing a parallel between the two. Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses...
...MEMOIR OF AE-John Eglinton-Macmillan ($3.50). Simple, direct, sometimes moving, biographical essay on the late George William Russell, whose career as a distinguished Irish poet ran parallel to his less happy life as an ardent, unpractical, outspoken politician...
...financial. He suggested the case of a road with outstanding bonded indebtedness of $200,000,000 which can earn interest on only $100,000,000. What, asked the President suggestively, would you do? The other problem is competition. He suggested that the nation is gradually coming to believe that parallel trackage must be eliminated in many places. Best solution he could think of for his press conference was consolidation of many lines into single, efficient, noncompeting systems...