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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next to TVA, the most prominent New Deal agency scheduled to face Supreme Court test this term is the National Labor Relations Board. AAA II (sec col. 2) and Wages-&-Hours may also have their turns if test cases can be sped...
...Alliance's executive board's report at Cleveland, President Lasser and his 25 colleagues claimed credit for: a raise in Southern relief minima from $21 to $26 per month; sufficient Federal relief funds to care for the present peak of 3,102,000 WPAsters (see col. 1); a growing respect for the Alliance in Congress. David Lasser's next demands on Harry Hopkins and Congress will be a 20% increase in WPA wages, to bring them up to local union standards, and a $6,600,000,000 work relief outlay to make jobs...
Besides Georgia (see col. 1), eight other States held Congressional primaries last week. One other (Connecticut) chose its November candidates at State conventions...
...Paris, resolute Premier Edouard Daladier, at last able to convince Britain that she had reason to feel the gravest alarm (see col. 3), rushed French preparations to fight effectively at once, if obliged...
Last week's financing was $200,000,000 bigger than Wall Street had expected, but, unlike certain industrial issues (see col. 3), was gobbled by investors, being oversubscribed some ten times. (C. J. Devine & Co. opened quotations on the bonds at 101 11/32 to 13/32.) Bringing the public debt to an all-time high of $38,328,000,000 and the Treasury's cash balance to a phenomenal total of some $2,300,000,000 (Secretary Morgenthau wants to be ready for any event in the U. S. or Europe),† the new money is to help finance...