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Unabated, the next day he told a press conference that he was planning soon to send the Capitol messages: 1) on removing tax-exemption features from future issues of U. S. bonds and 2) on antimonopoly legislation. Then, having blanketed U. S. front pages by simply making news as completely as any dictator could blanket the columns of a censored press, Franklin Roosevelt polished off his week by attending to his correspondence of some 10,000 letters, watching 30,000 children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn...
...decision that when the 18,000 Mexican petroleum workers staged their uprising and seized the oil lands for the Mexican Government, this was equivalent to their having been discharged by the former U. S. and British owners. Judge Ignacio Martinez Alomia handed down at Mexico City last week a blanket decision that the former employers of the 18,000 workers owe them "severance pay" equivalent to three months' wages. This totals over...
...foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only in the last three has exploitation actually begun, and that almost solely through the efforts of a onetime hunter of dinosaur eggs named Gilbert Elledy Gable. Since 1935 Gilbert Gable...
Last week SEC and the Federal Power Commission simultaneously laid a big wet blanket over the second situation. SEC announced that no former members of its staff would be allowed to argue before it or assist at hearings in connection with cases which were pending during their SEC employment without first obtaining permission. FPC announced that no for mer members could appear before it or assist at hearings within one year after resigning. By no means uncommon, similar rules are already in effect for the Treasury Department and the Federal Communications Commission, though not for the Federal Trade...
Cuban police swept over the island last week with a blanket order to round up radicals, "detained" hundreds, for several days. With this as a prelude, Cuba's dominant army "strong man," squat, swarthy Colonel Fulgencio Batista held elections to fill 81 seats in the House, one in the Senate...