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...General promised better rules for fixing prices and determining costs; more uniform rules for working hours and wages; more adequate code representation for labor and consumers; stricter enforce ment of code provisions. Did anyone dare to suggest that NRA had not employed as many people as promised? He had promised, roared the General, that the program would make 3,000,000 new jobs and it had. Had NRA failed to increase consumer purchasing power? He had upped annual payrolls by three billion dollars while the cost of living had remained almost stationary. Had NRA been put across by "ballyhoo...
...understand from what I have said why we will not receive personal aspersions. Neither will we receive attacks on the law itself because that is not a matter within our control. It should be taken up with Congress. Nor will we entertain at tacks on other departments of Govern ment or the statement of general policy laid down by the President in setting up this organization. These, too, are matters not within our control. We are here to hear of our own policies, methods, acts, errors, mistakes and blunders, and not those of anybody else over whose acts we have...
Although no definite announcement has been made as to the successor of R. Gale Noyes, instructor in English and the present Head Tutor, who has also resigned, it is believed that the ment of his successor today. Various men have been mentioned for the job among the most prominent of which are Edward P. Herring, instructor in Government, and tutor in the House, J. Raymond Walsh, instructor in Economics and a tutor in Leverett House, C. Crane Brinton '19, assistant professor of History and also a tutor in Dunster House, and Frank S. Cawley '10, assistant professor of Scandinavian Languages...
Through Commercial Attache Maurice Garreau-Dombasle. the French Govern- ment announced that if the wine quota were doubled to 1,568,000 gal., France was prepared to quadruple its U. S. apple & pear imports to 900.000 bu. That seemed fair enough until it was learned that the thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks...
...proletariat to be prepared to resist "lest British Fascism come like a thief in the night!" Nationally ready for class war, Labor's Cripps is internationally a pacifist. He induced the last Labor Congress to adopt a motion pledging the Party to refuse to support any British Govern-ment which might make war and to stop hostilities if necessary by organizing a general strike (TIME, Oct. 16). In all recent British by-elections Labor candidates have drawn their loudest cheers by restating variations of this anti-war pledge and Sir Stafford loomed last week as easily the Party...