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Thence I to lunch at Kirkland House and did browse there in the Library where I was told for the second time of a young Radcliffe one who was very sore at heart to find that "St Francis CCC' was not to be found even in the Widener stacks! But never mind, little one, did not even I once upon a time-seek (Widener's) Treasure Room in Lehman Hall...
...spend as much as AAA would have, the Morgenthau budget for 1937 would compare as follows with the Roosevelt budget: (000,000 - omitted) Roosevelt Morgenthau Ordinary Expenses . ..$2,586 $2,586 Veterans 790 2,790 Interest on Debt 805 805* Tax refunds 49 49 AAA or substitute 619 619 CCC 220 220 Emergency Expenses .. 1,103 3,103 6,172 10,172 Revenue 5,654 5,107 Net Deficit...
...Crimson's criticism seems to be the reflection of the rich man's point of view. Of course Harvard is a rich man's college. The editorial, for instance, gave the President no credit for establishing the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to save impoverished home owners; the CCC for taking thousands of the land's youth off city streets and out of the alums to healthy country air to lead a normal, healthy life and at the same time earn a little money; for the NYA which is aiding 1650 students on our own campus in their quest...
...Last year and the year before Franklin Roosevelt also announced that the Government's revenues were in excess of its ordinary expenses. More conservative in his bookkeeping this year and with more revenue to count on for this kind of semi-budget balancing, he counted the cost of CCC and AAA as "ordinary" rather than "emergency" expenses-an indication that he had expected both these prime features of the New Deal to be continued indefinitely. Moreover construction of battleships, formerly charged in part to relief and recovery ("to make jobs"), now is to be counted as direct national defense...
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