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...administration and the farmers disagree only upon the method of raising farm prices; that farm prices ought to be raised seems eminently patent to both. But not to Pollux and myself. What is needed is not higher prices, but more and faster money. Given a limited flow of money, higher prices simply mean lower physical turnover, less industrial activity, and deeper depression. Only an increase in the flow, that is, in the velocity times the quantity of money, can produce the greater turnover of goods which alone means prosperity for farmers or for anybody else. From the specific standpoint...
...continue to become ever more and more, a vast game of touch and go punctuated by strikes and lockouts. Senator Wagner, the President, and the National Recovery Administration may achieve a temporary compromise; but let this be called by its true name, industrial regimentation, and not miscalled "industrial democracy." POLLUX...
...reasonable for us to boast, with the Tartars of old, that we have no civil law. It is true that we have no sanctioned and unified administrative law; it is a tribute to the Governor's realism that he sees the infinite possibilities of administrative lawlessness which this implies. POLLUX...
...experience not in barns but on lounges, and frees them from the enchantment of the pulp presses. Though its dogma and its excesses may be appalling enough, a liberal dose of Legion conventions at the right time would have saved us from the Mann Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. POLLUX...
...Pollyana prize of the week, which is donated by Pollux and myself, goes this time to Sir Arthur Salter for his brilliant research work of the past few days, the result of which enables him to find a sound basis for optimism in the future of Europe because Germany has not renewed her claims to the Alsace-Lorraine strip. CASTOR