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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia's municipal finances are in a bad way. All Philadelphia knows it; few Philadelphians seem to care. The city's gas plant is in hock to RFC. Its public libraries can afford to replace only 20,000 of 85,000 dog-eared books which are thumbed to tatters each year. More than a third of Philadelphia's annual revenues go to service old debts. Expensive subways, promoted during the heedless '203, are sealed and empty catacombs; Philadelphia lacked the money to run them or to pay for them...
...Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck of Public Affairs...
...sort of creeping socialism and half way for private enterprise. Get down on one side of the fence. ... If any businessman violates the law name him, indict him, convict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group into disrepute and discouragement. . . . Admit that excessive public expenditures have to be tapered off gradually. And start doing it. Start just a trend toward solvency...
This year most Germans are not sending Christmas cards because Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
Sweden was moved by the Russian aggression as nothing else has moved her for years, but public opinion for once differed from Government policy. The Palace-i.e., the King and his advisers-and the minority Conservative and Liberal parties turned thumbs down, demanded strict neutrality. Their ideas stood, and Mr. Sandier fell...