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...find out anything whatever at Plotzensee Prison, even when correspondents arrived armed with official passes, proved almost impossible. Not until the enormous prison hearse drew up and two bodies were slid in, would anyone reconstruct what had been done in the cold, misty dawn...
...Rooseveltian campaign for a British New Deal based on nationalization of the Bank of England, economic planning and high-pressure spending on public works. Cried he: "I think President Roosevelt has given the world a very wise lead. The American New Deal has shown how essential it is to reconstruct completely to defeat depression in every phase of economic life." Ridiculing His Majesty's Government's intention to spend 2,000,000 pounds rehabilitating certain depressed areas (TIME, Nov. 26), New Dealer Lloyd George told the Commons: "If any man went to the American Congress and moved such a paltry...
...engineer in the White House could not cope, never until 1932, was the House of the Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing" the débris, least of all undertake to reconstruct the House in five scant months. That heart was the heart of Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week Mr. Fletcher might well have doubted whether courage or folly had moved his heart...
...hand of politics or business, which should stand even if the economic sky should fall. What they did not foresee was that, after the economic sky had fallen, a new generation of New Dealers would want not a pillar of stone but a handy wand with which to reconstruct the sky. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau...
...task to rebuild and reconstruct not blinded by crass materialism, but guided by courage, by high idealism and by a just sense of proportion," said Ass' E. Phillips, Jr. '34 of the Class Oration at Sanders Theatre yesterday morning. He went on to point out that the changes of the last four years had made a "world that does not want us, a world that is over-crowded and over-producing...