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...same time, Southeastern and Western roads dropped the 50% Pullman surcharge and reduced first-class (chair and sleeping car) fare from 3.6? a mi. to 3?. Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
...third time in two years, John Farmer was supposed to go on strike last week. And in many a bleak Midwestern county he did so, with right goodwill. In spite of announcement by the strike's fomenter, wild-haired, bespectacled Milo Reno, that "instructions were issued that there was not to be any picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called...
...patient with the Administration's farm policy, pleading: "Give the Congress and President an opportunity. If they fail, then you may talk about other methods." The Green Eagle began to look poorly when Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa, after a telephone call to the White House, invited ten Midwestern Governors and representative farm leaders to meet with him in Des Moines this week. Under their leadership it was expected that the farm strike could be called off with credit for all, humiliation for none...
...transport men recalled the case of a Midwestern line which five years ago lost a similar damage suit to a Negro. Immediately the line was deluged by Negro customers whom it finally discouraged by upping fares to a prohibitive price. Nowadays transport lines do not solicit Negro patronage, but they accept all passengers who apply...
Sixty percent of the teachers placed were in New England; 20 percent were in the midwestern states; and the southern and far western states each received ten percent. A few were also sent to foreign countries...