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...speaking of the type of question which the ballot contains the Digest says: "In framing the ballot, the Digest aimed at the utmost simplicity. Otherwise there was a danger of the ballot becoming a battleground of opinion on the various component elements of the New Deal, their merits and demerits in the minds of individual voters. Any consideration of details might have confused the balloters and obscured the purpose of the poll which was to distil, from a generous cross-section of the nation, a pure sample of American sentiment on the subject of the New Deal on the whole...
...beside these various sketches for Utopia there is another side to the T.V.A., which cannot be slighted, and probably will not be, since it runs into the old battleground of government vs. private interests. This side is the determination by the Federal authorities to operate the existing power-generating plants in competition with new stations as well. The T.V.A. gives them warning to cooperate, reduce rates, or face the competition of duplicate plants. Over this entire question there has been thrown a great deal of confusion, adulterated with considerable propaganda. Experts and college professors, publicists and Congressmen have been bought...
...Great Britain and Japan are currently in a deadly struggle for the textile markets of Asia and Europe, with India as the immediate battleground. Wages in Japan are about one-quarter of wages in Lancashire. Currently a conference is being held at Simla, but, over the long pull, there seems little hope for Lancashire...
Evanston, Ill., famed for Charles Gales Dawes and Northwestern University, last week got into the nation's news as the battleground of an organization called the Paul Reveres. Founded four months ago in Glencoe, Ill., a smaller Chicago suburb seven miles north of Evanston, the Paul Reveres tub-thump against Communism and "subversive activities." Planning a nation-wide organization, they made a Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target...
...Alva Vanderbilt erected another towering social milestone by divorcing her husband. A year later she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. In 1908 he died, and Mrs. Belmont abruptly redirected her talents. "No profession," said she, when someone asked her why she had retired from the social battleground, "no art or trade is as taxing in mental resource...