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...hear Nominee Roosevelt tell how the New Deal had restored Prosperity to Youth, praise NYA and CCC. In St. Louis, dedication of an unfinished Soldiers' Memorial diverted him momentarily to Peace, but in Chicago he swung back to his main theme in a speech addressed to his stanchest critics...
...lived to be Attorney General, but it is not at all hard to see that the litigation of the New Deal is in a sorry tangle. Attorney General Cummings is a loyalist-a very great Democrat, a greater friend, and a man with an unblemished record. But ... his stanchest friend could never contend that he organized, prepared and manned the Department of Justice for the bitterest battle of litigation which ever confronted any Administration...
...wrecked; it means too much to the prosperity of the rest of the country." Then he announced as his latest slogan for farm control: "Plenty without waste." "I wish to announce my complete abhorrence of this tendency to provide an economy of scarcity," said the New Deal's stanchest advocate of crop reduction. "Agriculture did not start it and does not plan to continue it. We have been for a balanced production...
...Stanchest defender of the faith in contracts, Wall Street last week exhibited a severe case of financial jitters over the possibility that the U. S. Supreme Court might uphold the inviolability of the so-called gold clause (see p. 18). Completely lost on the agitated gentlemen of the nation's downtown districts was the cold fact that 1935 was already setting new recovery records...
...spokesman for his industry, could be found on practically every list of tycoons picked by the President to do this or that public job. The country had every reason to believe that grey-haired old Dan Willard, with the confidence of Labor and his mildly liberal views, was the stanchest pillar in a quaking railroad world...