Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heartened by the response to Paul Smyth's letter, TIME herewith offers, as a temporary experiment, to print one such "want ad" letter a week, for the next few weeks. Conditions: 1) all such letters must be accompanied by at least two letters of reference from businessmen, clergymen, etc. of the writer's acquaintance; 2) TIME reserves to itself the right to choose which, if any, letters it will print: 3) prospective employers must satisfy themselves of each applicant's merits...
...nothing but "Sirs" for salutations in "Letters"? Some must be received that are rather interesting. Anyhow, I still think you're gentlemen...
Elections must be over before any dependable forecast of the next Roosevelt Budget is available, but last week-with Congress' return ten weeks off-the President began budget making. Since the next deficit looms at least $4,000,000,000 (his second largest), his first conferences with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John Hanes, Budget Director Bell could hardly have been...
Other events soon indicated the trend of Franklin Roosevelt's budget ideas. WPA was served notice that it must make $764,000,000 remaining from its 1938 appropriation last until next March as Congress stipulated. This pointed toward Relief economy. Fresh expenditures were pointed to by the remarks made on the White House steps by a departing Presidential caller. Bernard Mannes Baruch, oldtime Roosevelt adviser, long estranged but, since the carving of Czechoslovakia, again a visitor, declared as he emerged from the Presidential presence that the U. S. is dreadfully short of arms, ammunition and equipment for a needed...
President Roosevelt followed up this warning by saying that $150,000,000 would have to be added to next year's Navy budget if work was to go ahead on six new battleships. Besides expanding the fleet and the ground forces, air forces must be geared up by mass production of planes, as they are doing abroad (see p. 18). And private utilities must be stimulated to spend $1,000,000,000 if the U. S. is to have adequate wartime power resources. Observers took all this as a tip: watch for billion-dollar Army & Navy items...