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...great wartime solution, proposed occasionally for 20 years and passionately for two years by Baruch, was simply to proclaim at any random date that the price, wage and profit levels existing on that day constitute the final ceilings. Where these ceilings were unjust, adjustments would be made later. If such a level had been proclaimed two years ago, says Baruch, a billion arguments, frustrations, delays and inequities would have been saved the U.S.-not to mention billions of taxpayers' dollars in the rising costs of everything, from butter to guns...
...were back in 1937, Wall Street and SEC last week belabored each other with adjectives. A lawyer named Twombly said SEC was "unjust, unfair, un-American." SEC replied by exhuming the ghost of Dick Whitney. A new war had started over how to keep the peace...
Ranking Roman Catholics were equally emphatic. The Pilot, diocesan organ of William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, last week editorialized: "Wars can be just. Violence may be used against the unjust aggressor." Said the other U.S. holder of the red hat, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia: "Like our fellow American citizens we will do our utmost to protect our country by winning the war, and...to that end we place at the disposal of our Government everything in our possession...
...pleasant to have one's name associated, even by implication, with isolationists and Nazi propagandists. It is most unjust in the present case in view of the superhuman efforts of the organization which I head to perform its share of the defense job. In tne December issue of The American Magazine, Donald M. Nelson lists The Maytag Company's defense program among his case histories of "magnificently inspiring voluntary cooperation...
...This would be unjust interference with the rights of employees to join or not to join the union. There is no place for such compulsion in the relations of the university and its employees...