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...true that the manufacture of political issues has become something of a national industry, but I am as strong for politics?in a partisan sense???keeping out of the utilities as I am for utilities keeping out of politics. I have more confidence of a beneficial outcome under enlightened business leadership, with a minimum of governmental interference, than I have of getting very far by making this the football of politics and politicians. And without meaning to question anybody's sincerity, I may be permitted to wonder whether gentlemen who discourse so extravagantly and so passionately on the subject...
...given lip service to the War College, but they have never adopted its product. The result has been very detrimental to the Navy, is detrimental now with reference to the air force. For many years the Navy has been controlled by uneducated and untrained officers?untrained in a military sense???who have been appointed to the most important positions...
...Department offered the estimate. According to his estimate, Congress may sanely ask: "Shall we have one?or rather, shall we have the Mellon bill?" To speak of the Garner bill, or of the Longworth compromise (which was passed by the House) or of a soldier bonus would not be sense???pocketbook sense. But the opponents of the regular Republicans?Democrats and insurgents ?do speak of these things and do claim to be sane. Last week they set out to prove their sanity by disproving Mr. Mellon's estimate of the Government's purse...