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Three years ago, Representative Lewis proposed a bill for nation-wide unemployment and old age insurance. The Hoover Administration was not interested. Last year he introduced another bill geared to the New Deal. This year when President Roosevelt proposed Social Security legislation, David John Lewis was Johnny-on-the-spot with a third measure to carry out his wishes (TIME, Jan. 28). But unemployment insurance and old age pensions were too politically popular a matter for the Marylander to keep for himself. Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee shoved his way into the spotlight with a bill...
Since 1930 a major obstacle to intelligent handling of relief and recovery has been the lack of accurate statistics on the number, occupations and geographical distribution of the unemployed. Before 1932 the Democrats lambasted President Hoover for this blind spot on the nation's No. 1 problem. Since 1932 the Republicans have not hesitated to point out that President Roosevelt has done no better than his predecessor in assembling facts and figures on the extent of joblessness. Last year the Administration got the House to appropriate $7,540,000 for hiring 105,000 canvassers to take a census...
...gold ruble 7's, sold only to foreigners, have proved better investments thus far than U. S. Treasury bonds. Certain U. S. citizens intuitive enough to realize that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would take the dollar off gold, bought Soviet 1,000 gold ruble bonds in Manhattan for 514 Hoover dollars each which they can now sell for 884 Roosevelt dollars. Such transactions the Soviet Government has facilitated, thus far, as the best possible propaganda...
...Delphic Studios last week, Mary Hoover, the only U. S. muralist ever to graduate from the chorus of Earl Carroll's Vanities, held her first Manhattan show with 28 bright, clear-cut canvases painted during the past two years in the little Balearic island of Ibiza. Her most effective pictures were a portrait of an island bartender, pouring a drink of brandy before a row of gaily labeled bottles; a girl in a striped blouse playing cards; a patient, silver-grey donkey with dejected ears...
...Willow Springs, III, Mrs. Ralph Hoover divorced her husband and at the same time got free advertising for a mineral spring she owns by testifying that her husband lost interest in her when, by drinking her own spring water she reduced her weight from 218 to 129 Ib. Said she: "He wanted me to get back my mosque proportions...