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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made...
...Republican, he is friendly with both Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration in New York City and the Democratic State administration, both of which he serves (as president of the Long Island State Park Commission and City Park Commissioner). No friend, however, of Franklin Roosevelt and Harold Ickes with whose money he built the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Moses is a favorite with Greater New Yorkers. In the last 17 years he has, almost singlehanded, obtained for them more and better parks and parkways than they had obtained in 50 years previous...
This week, ex-Friend Pegler's book, The Dissenting Opinions of Mister Westbrook Pegler, was published.* Of its 85 reprints of his daily diatribes, only two were written without his scalpel. One is an ecstatic appreciation of Walt Disney. The other, a testimonial to telegraph operators, amazed even its author. "I am not very good at singing praises," he concludes, "having very little practice, and I hardly know what has prompted me to this extraordinary outburst of sweetness toward my fellow man. Just call it a change of pace...
...without a commentator until Mutual's Publicist Lester Gottlieb called in a friend, Quincy Howe, who had rarely been heard over radio before. After a 15-minute audition of comment on fake news bulletins, Howe was hired and told to report at once. Little, loquacious, quick, Quincy Howe is the author of the satire England Expects Every American to Do His Duty. MBS was afraid he was too inexperienced, but after breezing through his first broadcast without a hitch, he remarked casually: "I was grateful that I got off on the nose...
Died. James William Sullivan, 90, printer, proofreader, editor, "Father of the Initiative and Referendum Movement" in the U.S., friend & adviser of Single Taxer Henry George and A.F. of L. President Samuel Gompers; of old age; in Carlisle...