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...matter how often or how sincerely Mr. Whitney protests his desire to cooperate with Government regulations, his critics feel that the public will never be convinced that the field marshal of the spectacular fight against regulation has really had a change of heart. The quickest way, say they, to restore "public confidence" (i.e. public trading and more commissions) is to oust Mr. Whitney and his old-order administration...
Last week's issue of the Catholic Review was slightly less violent, but offered advice on the quickest and most effective means of cancelling one's subscription...
...high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place...
...N.R.A. besides being the safest and most definite road to prosperity, is also a protection against irresponsible radicalism. Three-fourths of Congress is for inflation and thinks it is the best and quickest road to good times. Once the people of this country have tasted the 'blood of inflation' they will want more, and soon we will have a desperate situation of uncontrolled inflation on our hands. The President's policy is definitely limited; he can not reduce the content of the dollar below fifty cents, nor does he so desire. No one denies that we dare not go back...
...boycott of Germany to force its government to terms would so multiply its target as to make a shot impractical. If Great Britain and France will not consent to an arms parley at Stresa, they must shepherd Hitler back to the Geneva conference, and a boycott would provide the quickest and least disastrous instrument for this purpose. Hitler must have a voice in the settlement of the armament question; he cannot accept the decision which seems impending at Geneva, he is unable to meet his colleagues at Stresa. The immediate point should be a provision for the statement...