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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the last geographical frontiers of the U. S. have been reached and exploited, Harry Hopkins believes: "The new frontier is idle men, money and machines, and all the resourcefulness, ingenuity and courage that reside in twelve or 13 million unemployed men is helpless to take up this new frontier without tremendous organization of productive forces such as only Government can supply when business is in the doldrums." Henceforth, in short, the Government should subsidize citizens who need to start or recoup their fortunes on the frontier of work-not-offered-by-private-enterprise...
...During the last election there were seventeen million people who voted against the present Administration. I think if you would take a poll of these seventeen million people you would find an overwhelming majority of them believe in collective bargaining . . . social security . . . unemployment insurance. They believe in relief-relief to the needy and unemployed, but not the financing of a vast political machine under the false label of relief. They believe in a better distribution of wealth created, in raising the standard of living, and a great many other social reforms...
Rated by almost any standard, Gracie Fields is the world's most successful show-woman. She makes about $750,000 a year; $250,000 a picture, $5,000 a week when touring England in vaudeville, the rest from broadcasting and royalties on gramophone records, which sell a million a year. Far more extraordinary than her income is her popularity. Answering her fan mail costs $25,000 a year. In an average week, she gets 500 requests to open bazaars, beauty contests, etc., 350 a week to read new plays, thousands a week to launch new songs. In London, Gracie...
...billion and a quarter in silver is approximately one million 1,000-oz. bars, each ounce worth $1.29 at the Government's statutory price, or 43? on the metal market. A thousand ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was needed, and last week Mrs. Ross awarded her contract to Peter James Malley Jr., 38, of Manhattan, son and grandson of Irish truckers, who bid her 15? per bar for the 50-mile haul. Mr. Malley hauls most of New York City's whiskey, also dyes and chemicals. He figures...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, basking in his prize-ring fame, has given his race big ideas. When the idol of the Negroes, who has grossed well over a million dollars in the past three years, took up riding-in-the-park as a pastime, the colored upper crust of Detroit. Chicago and Cleveland followed suit, bought expensive saddle horses. Last week Joe Louis persuaded his wealthy friends to ship their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis...