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...cost of the projects, or certified to the satisfaction of Relief Administrator Hopkins that they were not financially able to contribute so much. Thus, although an impoverished community would not be deprived of Relief even if the Federal Government had to provide 100% of its cost, a moral brake would be placed on spending. Senator Byrnes presented tables to show that the financial condition of States and cities has materially improved since 1933, argued that his requirement would prevent shameless attempts to raid the Federal Treasury. At the White House the President retorted by telling newshawks it was unfair...
...bare. Fan dancers, "nudist colonists" and other female exhibitionists were responsible for the gay success of world's fairs at Chicago, San Diego and Dallas. The fair girls vanished with the autumn and the Legion of Decency rectified the films. But burlesque in New York City suffered no brake except Commissioner Moss's warning and an occasional police raid when a show got too hot for even the precinct police captain to tolerate. The old scatological burlesque jokes bandied by the tramp, the Irishman and the Jew remained about the same. But as additional burlesque houses opened...
...been the doctrine of spending expounded to the President in 1934 by British Economist John Maynard Keynes: When times are hard the Government should cushion depression and prime the pump of recovery by spending more than it collects in taxes; when times are good it should put a brake on inflation by collecting more than it spends. Now inflation is under way and the President, though talking economy, is still waiting for revenue to catch up to spending. On the evidence that expected 1938 revenues of $6,906,000,000 (an alltime high, 60% above pre-Depression normal) were...
Married. Mrs. Clara Louise Saltmarsh Westinghouse, widow of Board Chairman Henry Herman Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. who invented the single-action steam engine and whose Brother George invented the air brake; and John Franklin Miller, 78, Westinghouse vice chairman; at Bradenton...
Cable cars look like the Toonerville Trolley, have open sides with seats facing out (which bothers women with short skirts on San Francisco's frequent gusty days). In the middle stands the gripman holding a lever like an oversized emergency brake. It goes through the floor and under the street through a slot, where it grips an endless line of steel cable an inch and a half wide moving at 8 m.p.h. When the gripman grips, the cable car moves steadily up the steepest hill, protected by three sets of brakes. Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line...