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...days of the New Deal Jesse Holman Jones had to storm the stubborn walls of U. S. banking to get anyone to take money from his RFC. Bankers who really needed Government money were scared to take it because of the onus attached to RFC loans. Those in a sounder position could not find use even for the money they already had. Upshot was that Mr. Jones finally persuaded big super-solvent institutions to sell him notes or preferred stock as a patriotic gesture, thereby setting an example for smaller banks to follow. One of the first to do this...
Classmates Walter Lippmann, Lee Simonson, T. S. Eliot had sounder reputations, but Reed got the prominence he wanted. With Hamilton Fish Jr. leading the football team, Reed pranced before the stands, "the most inspired song-leader Harvard had known...
...Ezekiel proposal, published in book form with the title $2,500 a Year* gave little comfort to Townsendites. As a theorist Dr. Ezekiel can think circles around Dr. Townsend, and he devoted but three pages to a systematic demolition of his rival's ideology. On sounder economic ground he reared his own plans. He proposed no guaranteed bounty for idle pensioners but a better ordered economic society in which even the poorest could earn a living some 60% better than the average U. S. citizen...
...thin edge between Science with its august curiosity and Mankind with its idle curiosity, Dr. Alexis Carrel awakened in 1935 with his best seller, Man, The Unknown, fresh and healthy faith in medicine's sounder marvels...
...southward. In 1889, 1891, 1896 and 1897 he stressed the same idea, pointing out the South's advantages in the low cost of labor, freight and taxes, and in few restraining laws. . . , "Despite attractive opportunities to liquidate, the management has carried or against what to some may seem sounder judgment and advice. ... No management is competent to operate a plant like this, handicapped with existing wage differentials. No management could by any ingenuity overcome the $2.56 average labor differential . . . particularly fatal to us, as we have no mills in the South...