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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiscal 1939. For purely military uses. Franklin Roosevelt's regular budget last week included only $510,000,000 for the Army, but upped Navy $161,000,000 (mostly for starting two new battleships, two cruisers, eight destroyers, etc.) to a whopping $720,000,000. His big news on Rearmament was that he would this week ask Congress in a supplementary message for some $500,000,000 more. Biggest item: $300,000,000 for 3,500 to 4,000 new Army planes, jumping the total in prospect by 1941 to around 6,000 (as against the 10,000 predicted during...
Julius Heil's hairy hands were sore and swollen from too much handshaking after his inaugural. He soaked them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee. With his right hand still bandaged he pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished...
...Silk Stocking Parade" and "Film Fun" are the slowest sellers at the Freshman Union news-stand, according to Vincent J. Monti 1G, who runs the stand with Victor E. Gatto...
...sell about 250 newspapers a day," Monti said, "that is, about one paper to every four Freshmen." In the news magazine field, "Time" and "Newsweek" divide the honors...
Reinstated by the Exchange, Joseph Sisto next made news in the Seabury investigation of Jimmie Walker. It came out that in 1929 he had given Mayor Walker $26,000 worth of bonds-just after his firm had a hand in a $5,000,000 bond issue for a taxi concern and just before Mayor Walker created a Board of Taxicab Control...