Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill extending the life of the Public Works Administration for two years from June 30, ensuring it $259,000,000 with which to carry out projects already approved (but not new projects...
...remarkable as the sudden rebellious uprising in which pork-loving Congressmen had threatened to tear the Administration's Relief Bill apart only the week prior (TIME, June 7), was the willingness with which most of them toed the Administration mark last week...
Seven men (included wounded who died) last week went to their graves as the result of the battle between pickets and police before Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). In Chicago a "mass funeral" was staged for three of them by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Meanwhile the violence of the S. W. O. C. strike against three big independent steel com- panies-Republic, Youngstown and Inland -subsided. In Detroit, where fortnight ago United Automobile Workers organizers were beaten at the entrance to Ford's River Rouge plant, the fighting shifted to court...
...Congress and the public President Roosevelt last week gave the evidence which had caused him to release a blast at wealthy tax-dodgers (TIME, June 7). It was in the form of a 3,000 word letter from Secretary Morgenthau and amounted to a short course in the art of tax-dodging as perfected by high-priced lawyers...
...would be. By an act of Parliament, passed after the will was made, Mr. MacDonald is entitled to a pension of $10,000 a year as a onetime Prime Minister. Moreover, because fortnight ago he decided to stay in the House of Commons rather than accept an earldom (TIME, June 7), he will get an additional $3,000 a year as long as he is a member of Parliament...