Business: Flutter

"Do you think, sir," President Roosevelt was asked one day last week at a regular White House press conference, "that domestic commodity prices have gone far enough to justify stabilization?"

As every correspondent expected, the President emphatically did not think so. Embroidering on a pet subject, he went on to declare at some length that the purchasing power of the new dollar was not yet in line with the burden of old private debts. Because he has said the same thing over & over again during the past two years, few White House...

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