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Although the union had less than $1,000,000 in its war chest, it expected the Relief Administration to take care of its workers on strike, as FERA is already taking care of some 20,000 textile workers on strike in Alabama. So unless FERA fell down on the job, it looked as if the strike would be well financed...
...Ralph Budd's face was saved. . . . EDWARD HUNGERFORD New York City Pastor's Fast Sirs: My friends have been having a jolly time about the little reference you made to our experiment on the relief diet [TIME, May 21]. . . . We were simply trying out the regular FERA allowance for food. The Rev. Charles C. Noble of this city went on the City Store, and the results of his experiment will be of very great value to the authorities broadening the diet which has been allowed to those on relief. I would not bother you with this detail except...
...Half way between a lemon and an orange is a grapefruit; half way between a public work and a relief work is a civil work. Up to now the Federal establishments, only recently scheduled for consolidation, have been increased to include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA an NRA, a CCC, a TVA, an HOLC, an RFC*-and now we have a CWA. It looks as though one of the absent-minded professors had played anagrams with the alphabet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously inventing a new game for the nation, a game which...
...Congress has given to the President to fight the recovery campaign?" As an aid to teachers in telling their pupils about them it presents "thumbnail sketches" of NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC. FCOT, FERA, TVA, RFC, FFCA, HOLC, with a map of Washington showing their locations. NRA. A code for teachers was submitted to NRA last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were...