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...were the prominent New Dealers not at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia last week. One absentee was Franklin Roosevelt who remained in Washington. Another was his wife, Eleanor, who at Reedsville, W. Va., her favorite subsistence homestead, awarded ribbons in a fiddlers' contest and received the first vacuum cleaner assembled as an industrial job by the homesteaders. The President did not have a great deal to do except sign some bills left by Congress and say good-by to a few others who were not going to Philadelphia. For him it was something of an experience...
...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...
Sandwiched in between social functions, given mostly by Congressmen angling for the U. S. Country Women's votes, were scores of addresses at Constitution Hall. An Australian delegate told how farm women there had installed a wireless set in every outlying homestead so that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented...
...which published her last work. Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost sent a literary tribute which was read. He also editorialized in last week's Post: "Long may the memory of Corra Harris remain green. Long may pilgrims visit her exquisite little chapel and behold her simple homestead, still open to visitors, set off against the background of stately trees that the owner liked to refer to as her 'cathedral pines.' She was a gifted writer and a good woman, and we wish we had more of the same sturdy breed...
...East Coast. The road's immediate problem is the Key West Extension, 40 miles of which was completely wrecked by the hurricane that howled over the Florida Keys last autumn (TIME, Sept. 16). Since then not a train has run south of the mainland jump-off station of Homestead. The road estimates that nearly $3,000,000 is needed to replace spans and causeways with steel structures, $1,800,000 to do it with wooden trestles. Another $500,000 is needed for other hurricane damage. "After making inquiries of bankers and officials of the RFC," gloomed the bondholders...