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Utility stock prices declined last week to the lowest level since 1932. The railroad averages rolled into new low ground for the year. Only a four-point drop in the Dow-Jones industrial averages was needed for chart-watchers to say that a bear market had been in progress for the major part of the New Deal. In terms of gold, stock prices were barely above the Hoover lows...
...from Veterans' pensions last June. At that time Congress empowered the President to cut pensions up to 25%, and purge the pension rolls of thousands of veterans whose post-War disabilities were classed as War injuries only by legal "presumption." To this end the Legion concentrated on a four-point program...
...Adopted a four-point "rehabilitation" program looking toward the restoration of service-connected disability payments as they stood before President Roosevelt's economy act of last March...
...William Adger Moffett. After the War he resumed his law practice, helped organize the Decatur Legion Post, became Illinois State Commander in 1929. An acknowledged authority on veteran affairs, he was made vice chairman of the Legion's Rehabilitation Committee, had a large hand in drawing up the four-point rehabilitation program. Hayes' opponents attempted to prevent his election as national commander with the cry: "Stop the king-makers!" The "king-makers," they asserted, were six members who have attempted to dictate Legion policies and were thumping for Hayes. They named them as Broker Philip Collins of Chicago...
...Chino-Korean People's League is taking steps to prevent similar losses in the future. . . . We are planning a four-point attack on Japan, which involves the expansion of a military training school in Korea, intensified guerrilla warfare in China, more stringent boycott of Japanese goods, and a campaign of terrorism in Korea, Japan and northern China...