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While thumping for the New Deal fortnight ago before 10,000 Iowans at Iowa City, Son James Roosevelt referred quippishly to "that most convenient of books," the mail order catalog. Mail order companies have been the chief corporate beneficiaries of New Deal largess to the farmer. The printing industry has also gained...
...winning the first re-election of a Democratic Governor since the Civil War, Louis J. Brann had not let Maine's electorate forget that in the past two years $108,000,000 of Federal money had been pumped into the State, which was five times the Government largess given Republican New Hampshire. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "Maine Votes For Santa Claus...
...they have also been a boon to chocolate-eaters. The Hershey bar has been getting fatter. In 1929 the 5¢ almond bar weighed 1 oz., in 1930 1¼ oz., lately 1? oz. The 10¢ milk bar which was 2 oz. in 1929 has been fattened to 4 oz. This largess was no attempt to ballyhoo. In 1909 Hershey Corp. advertised in newspapers and on billboards. That was the only advertising it has ever done...
Such propaganda would be viewed by many as pernicious. Others, hailing it as informative, would uphold it. Last July, the Federal Trade Commission conducted a public utility investigation following the acerbities which greeted the political largess of Public Utility Potentate Samuel Insull. That these utilities had spread propaganda throughout the schools of the land was made patent...
...National Bank is in the long list of gifts which he has made toward the betterment of Negroes. Tuskegee, Hampton and Fiske have been given many a million; the Spelman Seminary, Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman family the Atlanta school was founded...