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...management slipped enough writers through the picket lines to fill the News's columns. The mechanical staff stuck by its contracts and jobs. Guildmen circularized and picketed News advertisers & subscribers. Now, after six months, they claim that they have managed to reduce News circulation some 50%, appreciably curtail advertising lineage. Nevertheless, the Milwaukee Wisconsin News continues to appear on the newsstands six afternoons a week...
...Department of Agriculture pointed out that farmers' cash income for the first six months of 1936 was $335,000,000 higher than for the same period in 1935. Cheerily declared five Midwest farm journals in The Agricultural Outlook: "Past experience shows that drought does not necessarily curtail farm income when consumer buying power and general economic conditions are improving...
...present the "G" men working under the Department of Justice have established a well-won reputation for honesty, integrity and above all efficiency. The slogan "They always get their man" is one which the facts and record of convictions bears out completely. To curtail the funds of an organization which has done as valuable work as it has, is inexcusable, especially when government money is flowing more liberally than it ever has before in the history of the nation. The "G" men are free from dirty politics and party "back-scratching" and for that reason the public can rest assured...
...Florida canal was started with great excitement, but as soon as the initial fanfare had died down, funds were withdrawn, and the project temporarily abandoned. This must not happen to the Department of Justice, since the work has been begun admirably, and it would be utter folly to curtail its usefulness, just as it has reached the point where Americans are entitled to be extremely proud of it. If the Federal Government wishes to redeem itself, and for once carry through a large project without changing its mind, it should not haggle over...
...leading issues which have risen an average of 207% since His Majesty's Government started the boom with their $1,500,000,000 program of new armaments (TIME, Nov. 11). Urged to dampen this speculative rise by promising that His Majesty's Government will by law curtail armorers' profits, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said: "Great as the power of government is, I am afraid we can't control the speculator, and it would do no good to give him advice...