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By Scott Nearing in the 100th anniversary issue (April 2009)

February 3, 1934

They strutted up and down the avenue in those bygone days. They were freeborn, 100 percent American big businessmen who took back-talk from nobody. Now they take a handout wherever they can get it. Billions will be ladled into the mouths of the big businessmen who, five years ago, were yelling their heads off about "no government interference with business."

Then they were making profits. Now, profit-hungry, they have put both feet in the public Treasury-trough and are yelling their heads off for government funds.read more


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