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...good digestion, a good education and a bad illness." The revolution in U. S. political psychology that rode him into power in 1932 had been coming a long time. "Theodore Roosevelt, who knew little or nothing of economics, sensed it; Woodrow Wilson, who knew little or nothing of finance, strove to anticipate it; the World War attempted to postpone it; Harding and Coolidge tried to destroy it, and Hoover to ignore it. ... Roosevelt is simply a symptom of that process and not its cause." The Old Deal is dead. "Whatever happens, the New Deal will go on-as either...
...investigation of the matter reveals that the press is catching at a straw. Its only danger, if any, lies in the possible exploitation in the misty future of an unfortunately worded phrase. As General Johnson strove to make clear in his recent address at Chicago, neither President Roosevelt nor the NRA has harbored the slightest intention of limiting or licensing newspapers in any way. On the contrary, the present administration has thus far distinguished itself by its willingness, even its desire, to see the light of publicity thrown unrestricted on every phase of its activity. But even if the chief...
Most irked was Delegate Samuel P. ("Waiting Game") McReynolds. To lash the Press he took to the air in a trans-Atlantic broadcast over the Columbia System. Artful, he strove to make out that it was only to the European Press that the U. S. delegation's difficulties seemed ludicrous. Said he: "I want to say that no delegation to an international conference ever met as fierce a barrage of criticism as that which practically all the British and French Press have leveled at us. ... I need not tell an American audience that these stories were as unfounded...
...Miss Kay Fwancis, of her melancholy moping and her distorted R's, one can only say that she is not worth listening to. Truly, the grand style of acting which strove for depth of emotion and purity of diction is gone forever. In its place is the Ibsenesque problem drama forty years late; this treats of the momentous question of what a woman should do when she does not love her husband, is being blackmailed by man, and wishes to daily with a lover. This pleases the public...
...President to close all the banks in the land with one pen-flourish; it was quite another thing for his Secretary of the Treasury to get them open again. The machinery for such an operation was enormous and Mr. Woodin had scant knowledge of it. Day after day he strove to master new details at his cluttered desk while harassed bankers gathered in his outer office from every quarter of the country to clamor for Treasury concessions, instructions. Night after night he worked until 2 o'clock at the White House whence he would go directly home...