Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first half year is taken up the organization of industry, the growth of monopoly, cost accounting, the characteristics of the modern corporation, and related problems, with especial attention to railroads. The second half year is devoted to the problems of government regulation and the comparative success of the various types of regulation: the public utility type, the anti-trust laws, and the prevention of unfair competitive practices. The first half year particularly seemed disorganized, and the lecturers felt called upon at the end of each semester to outline what they had been talking about. The reading is comprehensive; the lectures...
...Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, just back from a scouting tour of the South and West. For years Senator Harrison has been a conservative "hard money" Democrat. Yet now he boldly told the President that only by currency inflation could his recovery program be made a success. President Roosevelt listened, smiled, promised nothing. Declared Senator Harrison as he emerged from the White House...
...when we are going to get out of this depression and the next Congress will repeal the President's discretionary-powers and make monetary inflation compulsory. If something isn't done quickly, you can kiss the baby good-by-I mean, the baby of agricultural prosperity. The success of the President's program may be in doubt...
Where General Johnson's bullyragging and President Roosevelt's patriotic pleas had failed, 30,000 determined coal miners in Pennsylvania scored a major success for NRA last week. Only after they defied their union leaders and started another strike which threatened to engulf the industry were mine operators sufficiently terrified to sign a soft coal code...
...Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations at Washington settled down into a long pull-dick-pull-devil between operators and Union Leader Lewis. General Johnson coaxed, wheedled, stormed without success. Fortnight ago he was ready to rivet a code of his own on the industry. Last week he changed his mind, turned back to hard-boiled diplomacy...