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Plenty of people like Senator Byrd. House Minority Leader Snell and a whole slew of ladies from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who descended on Washington last week are convinced that any further so-called pump-priming will be money down the drain. But that Government spending from 1933 helped bring the U. S. at least a temporary recovery few qualified observers deny. Main objection to resumption of spending has been that the Recovery apparently lasts only so long as the spending and the Government cannot spend forever. To a press conference last week. Franklin Roosevelt gave his rebuttal...
Fools for Scandal (Warner Bros.) cost $900,000, of which harum-scarum Actress Carole Lombard got $150,000, Belgian-born Actor Fernand Gravet $50,000. Less of a drain on the budget was the $25 a day paid for several weeks to cafe society's No. 1 hitchhiker, "Prince" Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry Gerguson). Actor Gravet got his first Hollywood job (The King and the Chorus Girl) year and a half ago because Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy thought he resembled Edward VIII. Prince Mike got his because there is no one Hollywood appreciates more than a persistent pretender...
...President's truce has since gone down the drain in a barrage of New Deal attacks on Big Business. Last week Partner Whitney marched in to see Chairman Douglas in the flesh, told him that, after all, United would not register until the Supreme Court validates the Holding Company Act. What is more, said Mr. Whitney, United had never intended to do otherwise...
...experience of the Harvard chapter with the national organization should be enough to convince the leaders of the Union here of the troubles that the nation-wide group has brought to them. One consideration is the financial drain, for out of every dollar that the Harvard Student Union collects from its members in dues, fifty cents must be sent to the national treasury in New York. In return for this consideration the national union supplies the Harvard group with news of its operations, the privilege of having union cards in a nation-wide society, and the responsibility of participating...
...residents the ancient roadbed has long been "Vanderbilt's Folly"; when it was proposed to make it into a motor road, cynical post-War Pennsylvanians dubbed it "Dream Highway." Last week the first contracts were let for draining the tunnels and Pennsylvania prepared to spend $73,000,000 to make the dream come true. The new four lane road is the straightest practical line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, its 164½ miles being 40 miles shorter than the present Lincoln Highway-which it crosses three times. Of the almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway...