Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Relief Administration's chief job, but it likes to give them food for the mind as well as the body. So it pays Hilda Smith, friend of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and onetime dean of Bryn Mawr, to sponsor a summer School for Workers on Manhattan's East side. There unemployed teachers get jobs and unemployed workers become pupils, get $8 a week. Last week newshawks wandered in, discovered a rack in which supplementary reading was provided for the pupils...
More gleefully still the newshawks rushed off to help their papers tell taxpayers and Red-Baiters that the U. S. Government was deliberately spending their money to teach workers Communism in the "Little Red Schoolhouse" on Manhattan's East side...
...picture of his tax payer playing golf dressed in a barrel, saying "Nobody objects to my shorts." In the New York Daily News, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor drew a sketch called "A Thousand Welcomes," showing a newspaper artist bored with such topics as the Drought, Hitler and the Far East, examining with approval the figure of a female golfer wearing shorts...
...Central American republics is almost wholly dependent on coffee, now selling at 9½¢ against a Depression low of 5¼¢. When rubber jumps from 10¢ per lb. to 17¢ as it has in the past six months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means...
Finally, 14? cotton is money in the bank for planters east of the Mississippi-and Atlanta is the one Federal Reserve Capital which continued, last week, to report mounting New Deal prosperity-but 14? per lb. for this year's 9,000,000 bale crop will not bring to all cottonland as much money as last year's 13,000,000 bale crop at an average...