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...state of revolt reminiscent of the Sales Tax fight, plunged headlong into the redrafting of the economy bill on the floor. There was no predominant leader of this latest insurrection against authority. Neither was there any leader strong enough to stop it. Different blocs kept coalescing to undo the work of the economy committee. In four confused, hysterical days the House rejected proposals for $125,000,000 in savings, accepted a scant...
...read to the Press: "Informal polls of the House have created apprehension in the country that a further bonus bill for $2,000,000,000 will be passed. I am absolutely opposed to any such legislation. ... I do not believe any such legislation can become law. Such action would undo every effort that is being made to reduce Government expenditures and balance the budget. The first duty of every citizen is to build up and sustain the credit of the Government. Such an action would irretrievably undermine it. That's all." Congressman Wright Patman of Texas is the House...
...course not especially welcome. However, Japan has broken the Covenant of the League and if that body is to keep any authority at all it is bound to enforcement. Our position frees us from this duty. That this country should from sheer altruism jeopardize its financial recovery and perhaps undo the good that has come from the recent economic measures passed by Congress is most questionable...
...Although the United States, after working for years to re-establish the gold standard through the world, did not deliberately seek to undo its work and to accentuate the depreciation of many currencies, such was the net result of our tariff. If the drastic decline in interest rates here and the premium on dollar exchange had not produced during 1930 a record-breaking export of short-term funds from the United States, our pull upon the world's gold supply would have been far more disastrous...
Unfortunately, no retraction can undo the incalculable harm, resulting from an error of this sort- but perhaps a few articles in your mag azine concerning the fact that Camden has more men working today in her 237 diversified indus trial plants than were working in those same plants in 1928, might serve to demonstrate to your readers that this city has some very credit able features...