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...industry's floor & ceiling. Mr. Andrews had already called in textile operators, textile labor delegates and representatives of the consuming public. Correspondents learned that: 1) Chairman of the textile committee would probably be Vice President Donald Nelson of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (the man whom Franklin Roosevelt tried in vain to get for Mr. Andrews' job)† representing consumers. 2) The floor for textile workers would probably be set at 30?. 3) The Administrator knew that textile employers have lately cut wages in anticipation of the new law's upward pressure...
...There are those," said President Vanderbilt, "who still dream of their abolition. Such dreams are in vain . . . the administrative tribunals are here and here to stay, because they serve, or can be made to serve, useful purposes. So 'is the automobile here to stay. But the law requires that the automobile be operated by a competent and experienced driver. It is equipped with brakes as well as with a motor...
...vague memory of my son and in vivid hopes of their sons, if parents, while preserving freedom of speech, compel the integrity of public education, then my son may not have died wholly in vain. But should parents fail in this perpetual vigil of peace, then in war will come slaughter between Communist sons and loyal sons -not abroad but at home...
...equal English force (aided by Dutch and Hanoverians), commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, engaged in confused and bitter slaughter. About noon, the English infantry broke through the French centre, obtained a foothold within the disorganized French lines, formed a hollow square against which French cavalry charged repeatedly in vain. When the English were nearly exhausted, de Saxe ordered a general attack and threw in his Irish reserves. Within ten minutes the English abandoned the position which had cost them the best part of their army to gain...
...that the Viennese workers are anti-Nazi, but can never produce a shred of objective evidence to that effect. ... It is my impression that the Nazi control over Viennese workers is now already complete, and that any anti-Nazi hope, based on a supposed dissatisfaction of the proletarians, is vain and futile...