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...break Germany's 435-mile trench stronghold from the Channel to the Swiss border. For four years of Depression the U. S. Government has tried in vain to break the deadlock in the building business, to move the nation's heavy industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan is "Recovery or Bust...
President Hoover never knew for sure how many persons were unemployed in the U. S. during his Administration. President Roosevelt knows no more than his predecessor about the state of U. S. joblessness. Their ignorance is due to the fact that the Federal Government keeps records of those who get jobs, none of those who do not. Largely because there are no incontrovertible figures on unemployment, its size and extent remain a red-hot subject for argument and guesswork...
...political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried to become Director of Mines under Herbert Hoover. Boss Farley was determined to let no Republican into the Bureau of Mines or anywhere else if he could help...
...Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party. Opening the last they read: "Push aside the capitalists, open the warehouses, distribute the goods to all who need them. . . . Under Roosevelt and the NRA, the millions of workers are getting less food, less clothing, less shelter, than they did under Hoover...
...California Academy of Sciences made Herbert Hoover its first vice president. Citizen Hoover has just finished the manuscript of a book, to be called The Challenge to Liberty. Two installments of it will appear in the Saturday Evening Post during September...