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...slight miscalculation last week is casily explained by the simple fact that Hobin throw a wrench in the Geers and there was then no Carpenter to take it out. However, everything will be all right today, for there is not a Ray of hope in the Indian Camp...
...President has his hardest battle ahead. He wants power to negotiate tariffs. This is a wrench which Congress is not happy to see applied to the traditional control of tariffs by the Legislative body. But it is none the less desirable. If it is admitted that we could not have made progress during the first year of the New Deal without executive authority to manage the dollar, to fix the price of gold, to reorganize the banks, to fix wages and working rules, then it is illogical to deny Mr. Roosevelt the one major power he now seeks, which...
Clevelanders who had impulsively planted the seeds of Reform and had then left the fruit to be choked by the weeds of oldtime political organization, Philadelphians who had just succeeded in throwing a small monkey-wrench into the long-lived Vare machine, New Yorkers who were putting their second Fusion government in 20 years into the City Hall, could benefit by looking to well-governed Cincinnati for a lesson. The lesson was fresh from the presses in highly readable book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from...
...Menafee ever has a son he will probably name him Franklin Roosevelt Menafee. During the War, Gus was a seaman on the destroyer Fanning. When a petty officer was said to have attacked him with a monkey-wrench in the Fanning's engine room, Gus whipped a service automatic out of his dungarees and shot him dead. A Navy court martial sentenced Seaman Menafee to be executed by a firing squad, but Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, to whom capital punishment was abhorrent, acting in the absence of Secretary Daniels, commuted Menafee's sentence to life imprisonment...
...developing a workers' paradise, with miles of modern apartment houses with landscaped courtyards, plenty of open air and light, great pools and bath houses--all for an average of $5 per month. This was accomplished by taxation of wealth and luxuries, which means, in effect, throwing a monkey wrench in to the capitalist works without substituting any new works...