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...interestingly and with authority of Technocracy, the depression-time craze which has recently emerged with new trappings, both ornamental and ideological. Mr. Riches contributes a survey of the I.L.O. packed with factual information and providing an element of cheer for the future of international cooperation. Both of these essays smack of serious study, and neither of them indulges in roseate or gloomy speculation...
...this migraine to an ex-Harvard professor of government, Merle Fainsod, who heads OPA's new Retail Trade & Services Division. There was serious trade talk of an ultimate need for no less than 300,000 OPA policemen. Long before that number are hired, Professor Fainsod will find himself smack up against Paul McNutt's manpower mobilization problem...
...civilian had now run smack against the facts of war. With ration books in pockets and purses, the citizenry would soon know that World War II was too vast and too desperate for 1918's skimpy, voluntary, gasless Sunday belt-tightening. This looked like a real...
Fight. That evening Jesse Jones went to a gala party of Washington's hail-fellow Alfalfa Club, but his heart was not in the fun. His Texas temper, tender from years of being left alone, still twitched and writhed. He bumped smack into the Washington Post's publisher, trim, high-domed Eugene Meyer...
...measure, the Senate's friends of labor, La Follette of Wisconsin and Thomas of Utah, slipped into the hopper a bill to impose on management that violated labor laws criminal penalties up to $10,000 in fines, six months in prison. Any anti-labor law would thus come smack up against the La Follette-Thomas bill, would have to fight with it for Senatorial consideration...