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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief along the Mississippi popularized him for the Presidency. Improved Social Conditions was his campaign theme-song. Once in the White House, he continued to work for human betterment, appointed a commission on Child Welfare, commission on Illiteracy, commission on Social Trends. He and his friends have made two million private dollars available to finance these unofficial surveys...
...Last year Russia sold $30,749,044 worth of goods to the U.S. Chief items: furs ($8,299,215), manganese ($6,050,839), platinum ($3,612,464), sausage casings ($2,675,595). Hard and soft Soviet lumber totalled 38 million feet, compared with U. S. production of 33 billion feet; 113,000 tons of Soviet Anthracite against U. S. production of 75,000,000 tons. In an export trade of $107,651,000 to Russia, the U. S. shipped $29,000,000 worth of cotton, $20,000,000 worth of farm machinery. Last week International Harvester increased its Milwaukee plant...
...love of all mankind became concentrated to a particular interest in wandering, jobless workmen. He stubbornly believed that every vagrant could be persuaded to work. Newspapers ridiculed him, exaggerated his wealth, called him the "millionaire hobo." But his mother approved. When she died she willed him a half-million dollars, half in a trust, half to spend on his idealism. He spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed...
...million kilos [11,023.1 tons] of granite and bronze have been used up in war memorials throughout France, and not a single outstanding work of art has been produced...
...Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything he can on margin. Unable to go wrong in the kind of market he has to deal with, he begins to clean up, and before a year is out is worth (on paper) over a million. Of not particularly stern moral fibre, he lets his good fortune unravel him further. His wife leaves him. he becomes a come-on for many, especially chorus wenches with necks for neck- laces. At the crash he is sold out, retires to a bootlegger's farm in Connecticut, whence...