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...Last week executive representatives of the 21 railroad unions called upon President Hoover, petitioned him to use his good offices to prevent the carriers from cutting workers' pay another 20% on Feb. 1. Such a reduction, they asserted, would prove "a suicidal program ... an unsound and destructive policy...
...last year (TIME, June 22, 1931), was last week convicted of conspiracy to defraud depositors. Scottish immigrant, onetime plumber, Bankster Bain had prospered in real estate, then branched into banking. Before the Depression, his Midas reputation spread widely among the clerks and laborers of Chicago's Southside districts. Unsound real estate promotions, wholesale juggling of assets among his various banks, whisked over his house of cards. When the banks crashed with deposits of $13,000,000 owed to 150,000 depositors, only $390,000 was found in cash. The episode gave a black eye to chain banking and, through...
Public Economy: ". . . Prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure. . . . The party will continue to uphold the gold standard. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in principle and dishonest in results. An ailing body cannot be cured by quack remedies...
...will conduct research in that field in succeeding years. According to Dr. H. D. Lasswell, of the University of Chicago, chairman of the committee, "one discovers very quickly that the expert practitioners in this field depends on dramatic instance of apparent success in the past for the swift and unsound generalization that promotion activity is of tremendous importance in our society': this is done without paying due regard to the promotion activities which fail of their goal, or which neutralize other promotional activities...
...revolution in British government," shuddered the Conservative Morning Post. "The expedient is unsound and cannot well succeed...