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Congress, caught in an election year with a paucity of real issues, is beginning to wield the economy axe on those agencies which it considers nonessential to the war effort. Included in that category are the NYA and CCC. Senator McKellar's Committee on Education and Labor is now considering a bill which abolishes the two and saves about $310,000,000. Despite strong Administration pressure to kill the bill, there is a very good chance that it will be passed by a Congress anxious to "get something done...
With him was Radioman Gene Aldrich, 22, a husky, gabby, self-confident Missouri farm boy, and Ordnanceman Tony Pastula, shy, dreamy, sandy-haired son of Polish immigrants. After CCC camps in the West, they had both joined the Navy to see the world. But with 41-year-old Dixon, whose first hitch began in 1919, the Navy was a business. He took charge as soon as his beloved bomber sank from sight...
...bottom"; strikes should be stopped; Wendell Willkie should get a war job; Dean Landis was the wrong man to head the Office of Civilian Defense; the war debt would be terrific; aid should be sent to General MacArthur; perhaps MacArthur should have been in Singapore in the first place; CCC and NYA should be abandoned; there should be no "political conduct of this war." In World War I, Millard Tydings was a good & able soldier. Oklahoma's Josh Lee, a 100% spellbinding New Dealer, cracked: ". . . General Tydings . . . the greatest advocate I have heard so far of trying to conduct...
...more CCC, no more non-defense activities for NYA. (The President two months ago suggested that Congress combine CCC and NYA for economy's sake, got no action...
...effort. We insist that labor's legitimate rights to organize freely, to bargain collectively, and to strike, be protected. And we strongly favor voluntary and impartial mediation in defense labor disputes. We favor maintenance and increase of educational budgets and social services like Federal Housing, the NYA and the CCC...