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...only reason for the appointment was that the barber had just become a father. It strikes us that, while a good barber might make a very good Colonel, the theory that such a common experience as paternity fits a man for service as a Colonel is rather grotesquely unsound. In this appointment Mr. Lafoon apparently stumbled over both feet. But on his apologetic announcement of "no more barbers" he has in our opinion stuck one foot in his mouth...
...would not have the members of your committee for a moment to think that this protest is motivated by a spirit of retaliation, that I am unduly peeved and aggrieved at an injustice or an affront done me personally. To make objection to confirmation upon that unsound basis would be unworthy of a United States Senator...
...There is a school-I had, inaccurately, almost said 'of thought,'-in NRA that has prevailed since I left it which insists that any provision against predatory price slashing is 'economically unsound' and 'unenforceable and 'rendered unnecessary by the wage-fixing rules.' I fear that they have prevailed and that new NRA legislation proposed by the Administration will follow this so-called view. It is a ghastly paradox and I will fight it with all that I have to give. Here we have self-styled reformers echoing the shibboleth of some...
...time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...
...speaker went on to say that two interesting economic schemes had been developed during the depression. One of these is our own NRA, while the other has appeared in Australia. The first plan is politically feasible for use in this country, it is economically unsound; and that although the second plan is economically sound, it is perhaps not practical in politics. Having stated that relatively little could be done to alleviate the economic distress in this country by the use of such plans as mentioned, Dr. Mason at the same time expressed the belief that we were emerging from...