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...Kansas City young citizens got first choice of auditorium seats to hear Nominee Roosevelt tell how the New Deal had restored Prosperity to Youth, praise NYA and CCC. In St. Louis, dedication of an unfinished Soldiers' Memorial diverted him momentarily to Peace, but in Chicago he swung back to his main theme in a speech addressed to his stanchest critics...
Dartmouth's '31 has practically the same number (30) of lawyers, teachers, doctors, bankers and insurance agents. Other occupations vary from politicians to ski school proprietors to ladies underwear to junk dealers to yellow fever research to CCC officers to the Yankees (Red Rolfe) to airlines...
Estimated expenditures for fiscal 1937 were set at $7,762,835, 300. Only$560,000,000 would be needed to finish off Bonus payments, and less would be spent on the Veterans' Administration, War Department, CCC, and recovery & relief. As for increases, $405,000,000 would be required for Social Security and expenses for AAA, debt retirement and interest on public debt would be up. In addition, the sum of all other expenditures would be $448,986,000 over 1936. chiefly because of public works and national defense. Finally, the President dangled a figure left out of his regular...
...drove to Little River Dam near Waterbury, to Wrightsville Dam on the Winooski near Montpelier, thence through one of last spring's Connecticut River flood regions to Hanover, N. H., where he was met by Republican Governor H. Styles Bridges. At Little River Dam, where 1,300 CCC boys were working, he said, "This is a great sight!" at Wrightsville Dam he called reporters to his car, told them that the dam which held back the flood last spring, had in one season saved more money than it cost. "It is a very excellent illustration of co-operation...
...Coal Commission Farm Credit Administration Federal Communications Commission National Labor Relations Board Securities and Exchange Commission Railroad Retirement Board Motor Carrier Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission Social Security Board Public Utility Regulation Soil Conservation Service United States Railroad Administration National Training School for Boys Certain positions in the CCC camps Rural Electrification Administration "As to the exemption from the classified service of positions of attorney by Congress, you will, of course, appreciate the fact that when Congress takes such action there is no power resting in the President to bring such positions within the competitive classified service. I have...