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...Harvard Economics Professor Sumner Slichter boldly prophesied a postwar boom that would probably overtax U.S. productive capacity...
...goods is likely for a year or more to test the productive capacity of U.S. industry. With 57 million people working 7.5% fewer hours, the out put of goods would fall short by a small margin of meeting the probable demand." So prophesied Harvard's ruddy econo mist Sumner H. Slichter in Chicago last week, before some 200 regional chairmen of the Committee for Economic Development. To support his thesis Slichter fired a series of cold facts...
...TIME FOR DECISION-Sumner Welles-Harper...
...name of Cordell Hull occurs just once in Sumner Welles's book on the past, present & future of U.S. foreign policy. Inasmuch as former Undersecretary of State Welles quit his post because of basic differences between himself and Mr. Hull, such diplomatic restraint might argue a mealymouthed, chilly and platitudinously correct book. Surprisingly enough, Mr. Welles writes a sprightly prose, hits straight from the shoulder when he is discussing what he considers State Department mistakes, and plants himself flat-footedly on the issues which he holds to be important...
Argentine propagandists dug up a month-old speech of Sumner Welles's, forced newspapers and radio stations to use a distorted version which had the onetime Under Secretary of State endorsing the Buenos Aires jingoes. Actually, Welles did no such thing; he did not even name Argentina. But he did suggest that the U.S. State Department had mishandled its Argentine relations and that it had made a mistake in trying to bully a sensitive people...