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...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. One of her favorites is for jobless miners at Reedsville, W. Va. Part of the Reedsville project is erection of a factory to make furniture and post-office equipment. Secretary Ickes enthusiastically allocated $525,000 of PWA funds to build and equip a factory to employ 125 men. To provide the factory with work, a provision was popped into the regular Post Office Appropriation bill to operate the factory and take over its output. Last week the House of Representatives dealt this favorite project of the First Lady a stiff blow...
...give a meaning to meaningless words by raising them from small to large type. But his contribution is really far greater than that. For it is he who has discovered the necessity and utility of writing letters to the papers. Of course, someday some corrupt biographer in the employ of the Bank of France may point out that he waited until he had a poem (so-called) on every newsstand round about (note: The Advocate came out day before yesterday) before bursting into print in any given locality. But any future charge that he is a publicity-hound will...
...scope, and I feel that it is now more of an emotional reaction than a scientific means to an end. The second method is constant declaration of public opinion against Nazi atrocities. This pressure upon the Hitler government is very effective, and I urge all liberals and humanists to employ every means possible to let the German Consuls throughout the country know that the American people do not sympathize with the brutal policy of their government. The third way to combat Nazism is through aid to the victims and propaganda among the Germans themselves to teach them what is really...
...mixed up in new speculative enterprises, the bill provided that no loans shall be made to businesses which were not in existence three years before December, 1929, so that the help can be extended to businesses affected by the depression. Also, loans would be made only to concerns that employ five or more persons...
...appointed a special committee of directors to consider such matters as may have been disclosed or touched upon at the recent hearings with reference to the bank and its affairs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Banking & Currency of the United States Senate, with authority to select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these matters as may be considered to furnish grounds for a claim or claims in favor of the bank and to commission such counsel fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed...