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...schooling was interrupted after the eighth grade. To help support the family Cas had to go to work. He caddied, sold papers and worked in a pottery and a steel foundry. One year he spent in a Utah CCC camp. Only after three years could Cas start high school...
...authority and the money for the 90%-of-parity support under farm prices, yet Franklin Roosevelt still retained the authority of the price control bill to use any money he can dig up for food subsidies. Hurriedly, the House farm bloc got up a simple resolution merely extending CCC. The Senate, not in such a hurry, began again to tack on anti-subsidy amendments. And many a Congressman, convinced that subsidies would not work, smiled-and waited...
...Washington, Studebaker vigorously promoted Negro education and vocational education of the unemployed, the teaching of CCC boys, the coordination of U.S. educational activities. When war loomed he organized the $75,000,000 Federal program for training skilled labor. He kept on pushing for adult education by public discussion and the radio...
...airport last week, bringing Britain's handsome, faultlessly groomed Robert Anthony Eden on his second visit to the U.S. The first time, in 1938, he was temporarily out of public life in protest against Chamberlain appeasement-he came to make little speeches, lay wreaths and inspect CCC camps. This time, as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Churchill's heir-presumptive, he came on urgent and secret business...
...millions of men who have been processed by Selective Service machinery throughout the nation only 6,277 by last week had been finally classified as conscientious objectors (4-E). Most were in labor camps working on soil conservation, reclamation and reforestation projects formerly in the CCC domain. Housed in 59 camps from coast to coast, C.O.s are under Army jurisdiction, do all their own work, pay their own upkeep or are supported by funds from churches and sympathizers...