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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McAdoo's real political career began when he met Woodrow Wilson in the Princeton, N. J. railroad station in 1910, was so impressed that he helped elect Wilson Governor of New Jersey. Two years later he helped elect him President. He was the New Freedom's Secretary of the Treasury until after the Armistice. "To make it a people's Treasury rather than a bankers' Treasury," McAdoo made national banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant...
...first by Leftists, then by Rightists, each offensive gaining a little territory, none promising to be very big. A Leftist drive across the Segre River in Catalonia quickly died out, while a Rightist thrust in Estremadura, southwest Spain, was still 15 miles from its goal-the precious Almadén mercury mines...
Elbert Hubbard, flowing-haired, flowing-tied purveyor of philosophical-artistic tripe to the U. S. of a generation ago, was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches...
Blue Ridge Mountaineers (Sat. 11:15 p.m., MBS) see their first cinema at Blowing Rock, N. C., say "Whew!" for the microphone...
President Roosevelt (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS, MBC) speaks from Hyde Park, N. Y. to mark the third anniversary of the Social Security Act. Thurs. 11 a.m., receives honorary LL.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont. 2:45 p.m., dedicates the new Thousand Islands International Bridge...