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Last week it was as Gyp's president that Sewell Lee Avery presided over a stockholders' meeting. Forthright as ever, he briskly challenged a few of the country's most cherished economic notions. It was shortsighted, said he, to think that the U. S. must embark upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gypsum & Deflation | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

... I have always been both interested and disgusted by the letters published from those whose narrow-mindedness, partiality, bigotry, pedantry, stupidity and conceit cause them to write to cancel their subscriptions when there appears in TIME some word, phrase, or article which does not agree with their warped, fussy, self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

"The Old Dealers are trying this fall to elect a Congress of men who are unfriendly to the AAA and unfriendly to the farmers except in superficial lip service. They hope to do away with the processing tax. They recently have been pointing out the fact of the most extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Abundance v. Scarcity | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

But both the ordained and the lay max alike should turn to the last two chapters. "Adventures" and "Peace," and find the inspiring culmination of a whole new point of view which one of the truly great thinkers of our time has to offer. The present age of disillusion is...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

After the weak platitudes of the politicians and the shallow optimism of the Press it is refreshing to read a realistic analysis of the present economic situation. The February News Letter of the National City Bank presents just such an analysis. The pamphlet finds no change in the general situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALL STREET ECONOMICS | 2/9/1933 | See Source »

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