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...antimonopoly legislation. Then, having blanketed U. S. front pages by simply making news as completely as any dictator could blanket the columns of a censored press, Franklin Roosevelt polished off his week by attending to his correspondence of some 10,000 letters, watching 30,000 children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn...
Vice President Garner, who was amusing himself by trying to find a suitable Easter new hat (see cut), was rumored to disapprove and Senator Pat Harrison was noncommittal. Nonetheless, Congress likes to spend money, particularly in election years and the program was shrewdly divided so that every State and section could be sure of a fat share. In the last depression Congress habitually gave the President lump sums to spend as he wished. Best guess last week was that Congress would indeed give the President what he wanted but this time with more specific instructions as to precisely where...
...thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which was the week before Easter last year, department store sales were off 18% from 1937. For the week ending April 2, which was two weeks before Easter this year, department store sales were off only 2%. Q. E. D. said...
...concluded with a statement that the Easter Gospel proclaims Christ still alive among us today...
...seek ye the living among the dead?" began the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, in his Easter Sunday sermon before a capacity congregation in a Memorial Church gaily decorated with lillies, tulips, and daffodils...