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...Jackson Day itself, Robert Houghwout Jackson modestly played second fiddle to Governor Lehman at the New York dinner, but before the dinner he made the one remark of the fiesta which may have tangible consequences. Asked whether he would run for Governor of New York next autumn, Mr. Jackson beamed: "If the Democratic Party wants me to be its candidate. I will...
Legislative Program. The working plan which the President originally laid down for Congress last autumn contained five items of which one-anti-trust legislation-was left out of his message to the Special Session two months ago. This week, the President omitted another-Regional Planning-recommended for enactment 1) the Farm Bill, 2) a wages-&-hours bill and 3) modernized anti-trust laws. Of the first: "It is shameless misrepresentation to call this a policy of scarcity. It is in truth insurance before the fact instead of Government subsidy after the fact." Of the second (which the House sent back...
Riggers' Figures. First step in solving any problem is to find out what the problem is. Last autumn, Franklin Roosevelt appointed President John D. Biggers of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. to make the first census of U. S. unemployment. Mr. Biggers went to work at $1 a year, with a $5,000,000 appropriation and the aid of the Post Office Department. Last November, 81,000,000 unemployment blanks were distributed by letter-carriers to 32,000,000 U. S. homes. As the returns came in, a separate door-to-door census checked them in 1,864 areas...
...Gosplan has been under the disadvantage that the Political Police took away last summer and autumn not only its director, V. I. Mezhlauk, but also the other leading Plan officials, and they have not been heard of since. The June issue...
...great distance by the sharp, tiny black shadows of cabins in a valley foreground. The Golden Tree, one of the largest, best-designed canvases, showed Mrs. Poor (Novelist Bessie Breuer) in a brown dress and bright green bandanna, engrossed in typescript at an open window ablaze with yellow autumn foliage...