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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, the Bishops' Program on Social Reconstruction issued some 20 years ago entitled the Church in this country to a position of advanced leadership in the field of sane social legislation...
...deterrents to Business (capital stock, capital gains, undistributed-profits taxes, the rule disallowing profit-&-loss offsets from one year to the next). The President was described as agreeable to most of their suggestions so long as revenue is not cut. Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, field marshal of Vice President Garner's Economy bloc (see col. 3), sat in on one session, after which he described the President's tax attitude as "fine, harmonious...
...Garner and his field marshal, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, are hopeful of achieving some concrete results when the tax bill comes before Congress. For John Garner believes in ordinary U. S. business -Wall Street excepted. If the Garner bloc can repeal taxes that business objects to, it will...
...Union. Having bearded many a planter and even bettered matters a little for its poverty-stricken membership, S. T. F. U. in 1937 tried to affiliate with C. I. O. as an autonomous union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field, S. T. F. U. was required to hook up with that union as a supposedly autonomous division. Last week S. T. F. U.'s Executive Secretary Mitchell and President J. R. Butler, suddenly breaking off the affiliation, made ugly charges...
...Japan's invasion of China. It was made by Joris Ivens and John Ferno, whose Spanish Earth was the best documentary film of 1937, and whose trip to China last year was financed by screen and literary celebrities like Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett and William Osgood Field. Equipped with an accompanying commentary written by Dudley Nichols and recited by Actor Fredric March, The 400,000,000 sets out to show that China not only deserves to win its war but has a chance to do so, reaches a climax with the Chinese recapture of Taierhchwang...