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...plan ran into a new stumbling block: after a year of listening to arguments, the Illinois Commerce Commission rejected the plan as financially "unsound" and containing insufficient guarantee of improved service...
...condemn the Morgenthau and Keynes plan in toto as putting the cart before the horse, as encouraging rather than checking unsound tendencies in Europe, and as introducing new unsound tendencies at home...
...Hook, the Machiavellian position is unsound. Says he: "Behind the facade of logical argument in the writings of Mosca, Pareto and Michels, are two significant assumptions . . . that human na ture has a fixed and unalterable charac ter . . . that the amount of freedom and democracy in a society is determined by a law already known. Both assumptions are false." History, insists Hook, is made...
Faced with game surpluses that threaten mass starvation of birds & beasts, conservationists are nonetheless dead set against the abolition of a bag limit. They also say that "scientific slaughtering" of excess wildlife is economically unsound, citing the example of California, which in 1924-26 paid $500,000 to get 22,000 deer killed-around $23 a deer. Their point: Why pay people to hunt when hunters will pay for the privilege...
There is no place today for unsound sensationalism in a branch of the government. A people at war should not be disturbed with baseless charges against men holding instrumental positions in public life. The Dies Committee, ruled by a Chairman who disregards objections from fellow committee members, and lashes out at all critics, can create nothing but strife and disunity in the nation...