Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, by reporting the honest concern of relief workers over the num-ber of relief babies, the United Press and the Associated Press caused a burst of fury among pious Catholics. Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, professor of ethics at Fordham University, was roused to the extent of threatening a boycott against newspapers which dared to hint that birth control might remedy the situation. Cried he: "Is it logical or even fitting for Catholic:parents to introduce into the sanctuary of the home newspapers which by their editorial policy, their news emphasis and news selection, and their columnists, aim repeated...
Last week a crowd gathered on the steps of New York County's Supreme Court House to witness a bankruptcy sale of the property of Hudson River Navigation Corp. Forced to earn a year's maintenance in four summer months, the 100-year-old concern went under in 1932, has since been operated at a loss by court trustees. Sole bidder for its assets last week was a contractor named Harry R. Pearley, whose offer of $100,100 was promptly accepted. Newshawks soon found that the real buyer was not Mr. Pearley but a fat and fabulous...
...Committee endorsed the House repealer. Meantime with many a snort & groan, millions of U. S. citizens filled out pink slips noting the highlights of their incomes and tax payments, filed them along with their income tax returns. "This is for the snooper," "Under protest!", "To whom it does not concern" and less printable jibes were written on the slips by taxpayers. At least one lawyer, declaring the "pink slip" law unconstitutional, filed suit to force the Treasury to keep his slip secret...
Whatever other objections he may have to the prepayment of the bonus by either of these measures, concern for government credit is undoubtedly the dominant one. Either the Patman bill, which proposes immediate payment of the 2 billion dollar bonus (due years hence) by resorting to the printing-press or the Vinson bill which proposes to raise the amount by the sale of bonds, would shatter government credit. Any government which played the bonus now would rightly be considered totally irresponsible by investors, and would have difficulty borrowing money anywhere. Yet gigantic borrowing operations for legitimate purposes are absolutely indispensable...
...control of the Student Employment Office, identification of these solicitors by means of official badges, and unlimited solicitation with regard to time; in addition, it more or less half heartedly advises the abolition of undergraduate agencies which actually take over the whole business of a laundry or pressing concern. The report is published after a thorough investigation of the situation both here and at New Haven, and should assist the authorities in cleaning up what has long been an unhealthy condition...