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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that announcement of the amounts of money he spends is a local publicity boomerang, Harry Hopkins talked of his plans in terms of men and jobs, not dollars. WPA's assignment is to take up unemployment slack rapidly at first, then more slowly as PWA's projects get going, then at full capacity when winter comes and heavy construction slows down. Last week WPA added 60,000 workers to its rolls, two-thirds of them in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Similar increases will be made each week during the remainder of July, to bring...
...have been appointed for fixed periods. Dr. Morgan was first to raise the question of White House control over the appointed officers of such corporations as TVA. Although Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson has opined that the President has ample power to get rid of Dr. Morgan, that persistently righteous man holds one ace: a section in the TVA act which says a director may be removed by concurrent House and Senate resolution, says nothing about Presidential power to fire...
...Governor of New York . . . because I could get no assistance from Washington, I was compelled to create State deficits-to put the State treasury into the 'red'-in order to feed the destitute and give work to the unemployed...
...last year was the highest since 1930. This year's is still mounting. Exports have not fallen off materially, but the value of the lira has declined and as a consequence Italy has to pay more for the raw materials, such as coal, oil, which she cannot get at home. On the surface, her industry is prosperous. Heavy industry is making high profits from armaments but, on the other hand, last year's capital levy has resulted in the bankruptcy of thousands of small firms...
Novel based on the wire service providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...