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Last week President Roosevelt let it be known that two of his favorite hymns were "Be Strong" and "Oh, Master, Let Me Walk with Thee." Whereupon, dropping the administrative lethargy which had spread gloom through Washington for weeks, and reasserting his political strength, the master of the White House persuaded the Senate to walk once more with him. His 4.88-billion-dollar Relief Bill was brought back from the purgatory of Committee, whither it had been sent last month after the addition of the McCarran "prevailing wage" amendment had made the measure wholly unacceptable to the President...
...Gloom has been gathering for a month or more-in market place and counting house, in home and club and office. And for once it was as thick over the rest of the land as in the dark depths of Wall Street. Even Washington seemed discouraged...
What was more, the gloom was worldwide. Heads of the European central banks gathered at a board meeting of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland, found fundamental conditions growing worse in every important economic area of the earth (see p. 20). After the meeting a New York Times correspondent wrote: "There is no feeling of despair and no fear of an immediate catastrophe anywhere, however. Pessimism comes from the continued lack of any indication of improvement in the basic factors . . . and discouragement from the fact that every one, despite all efforts made, feels he is forever fighting...
Milwaukee Gloom...
HALF MILLION MILWAUKEE CITIZENS STRUGGLING THROUGH GLOOM AND IGNORANCE ACCOUNT ABSENCE OF MARCH OF TIME FROM LOCAL SILVER SCREENS. URGE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO RESTORE DESERVING MILWAUKEANS TO FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER INTELLIGENT AMERICANS THROUGH TIME-WORTHY MEDIUM OF VISUAL EDUCATION. PLEASE ADVISE WHAT MILWAUKEE THEATRE WILL TAKE LEAD IN SHOWING THIS OUTSTANDING FEATURE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINNING WITH FIRST RELEASE...