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...this project is to move families from city slums to small tracts of land where they can live cheaply and comfortably, raise chickens and vegetables. The first locality selected was Morgantown, W. Va., the second Dayton. Dayton had already evolved a similar scheme to relieve its pressing unemploy ment problem, had set up social agencies to teach destitute families to bake bread, can fruit, repair shoes, make furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Model Tenement, Model Farms | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Blue Eagle's tail. In an open letter to President Howard Davis of American Newspaper Publishers Association he described the NRA as "a handicap and not a help to recovery." He did not specify his objections but said: "The NRA is simply a program of social better ment, nothing else; and industry can accept and endure this program on a large scale only after it has recovered, not before. ... As a matter of fact, it is universally impracticable, and if persisted in will become universally detrimental. . . . It would seem to me ... in view of the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ford Is Out | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...endeavoring to regulate gold prices is not for a few weeks but for a relatively long period certainly until well after Congress ha reconvened, and perhaps the President will wish even then not to interrupt who will have begun to be an exchange stabilization fund for the American govern ment analogous to that established by Great Britain...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 10/27/1933 | See Source »

...fare-cutting, and Mr. Cole's Southeastern roads agreed to await a decision from Mr. Williamson before deciding what they as a group would do. Mr. William son's committee has been meeting in Manhattan off & on for the past month, has adjourned each time without announce ment. It is an open secret that Pennsy and Central are willing to compromise, but New Haven, which derives a bigger pro portion of its gross revenues from passen ger traffic than any other major U. S. road (38%), is flatly opposed to any & all fare-cutting. Observers believed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lower Fares | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...cause: a Polish Jew with an ill-fitting dental plate. A passenger on a crowded train halted in Danzig station, he modestly turns his face to the window to struggle with the refractory plate. His facial contortions are misinterpreted by a hot-headed Nazi on the platform ... an argu- ment . . . the Nazi shoots the Jew . . . the war-dogs are slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chatty Casandra | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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