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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressure of his own union's business made it "absolutely and utterly impossible" for him to serve. In that way Mr. Tobin put himself in the position of a Federationist to whom Franklin Roosevelt might eventually turn for a peacemaker when the negotiators who are ancient enemies get nowhere...
...Henry Morgenthau, gentleman farmer, now Secretary of the Treasury, to go up Capitol Hill to explain to an inquisitive if not skeptical Congress the Administration's money plans. Having already announced that the Administration seeks no new taxes (except on Government salaries and securities), Mr. Morgenthau had to get Congress...
...Morgenthau said: "If I was sure all the principal trading nations of the world could get together to stabilize currency, I would not ask this extension...
...surpluses. Instead of buying surpluses direct from farmers and doling them out to the needy, FSCC will dole out tickets redeemable for food at any grocery. Grocers would do all the buying and selling, cash the tickets at post offices or other local Government agencies. Families would eventually get enough tickets to increase their food consumption 50%; i.e., a poor family spending $16 a month for food would get $8 in tickets. There would be no price controls; retailers and wholesalers will get their usual profits, thereby making the plan politically appealing. Details of the scheme were not worked...
...said the Government has ordered 1,400,000 little gas helmets which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks-can supply their young with filtered air. To get the babies accustomed to the new "toys," British ARP (Air Raid Precaution) officials suggest that mothers begin right now to "play peekaboo" with their infants through the helmets' mica windows...