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...mere maintenance of government pay cuts is going to balance the budget in 1936. The CWA will have to go, and the rest of the new alphabet, and with it all the rabbits which have been pulled out of the hat since March...
...adjustment to the problems of the needy undergraduate. The adjustment is a special one, made for a student body unlike those of the majority of American colleges. It is a student body whose depression problems can be solved, not by an arbitrary fifteen dollars a month, such as the CWA gift would prescribe, but by a coordination of loans, scholarships, and employment, made to individuals after a personal examination of their requirements. A college whose minimum expenses are twelve hundred dollars a year does not possess many men to whom fifteen dollars a month spells the decisive difference...
This concession the CWA was unwilling to make, although many other donors in times less trying than these have made them. It is unfortunate that a satisfactory compromise could not have been struck between the government's desire to restrict its grant to students otherwise unable to remain in college and the University's desire to administer its own undergraduate aid. But Harvard's demand was made on the basis of a highly satisfactory record in meeting its special problems; the demand of the CWA, on the other hand, was largely a failure to recognize that the most general...
...claims last autumn of the millions and millions of men put to work by NRA, unemployment has remained a big problem all winter, is still waiting solution. The last A. F. of L. unemployment figures stood at 7,000,000. To this must be added the 4,000,000 CWA workers who, except for government bounty, would also be idle. 3) NRA was supposed by raising wages to increase the purchasing power of the U. S. but did not. The cost of living has risen as well as the payrolls of industry so that industrial wage earners cannot buy appreciably...
...Indianapolis last summer during the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race (TIME, July 10). Three months ago his backers withdrew. Granny Granville closed his Springfield shop, went to Manhattan to look for a job. Last week bad luck dogged him to Spartanburg, S. C. His little Gee Bee crashed to avoid CWA workers who did not know enough to clear the runway of the local airport on which he was trying to land. Granny Granville was killed...