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...President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public works projects in China as novel and ambitious for that country as the PWA. For another thing, the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury still controls the price of silver, which is a matter of life & death to China...
...cash balance of some $580,000. These are the Smithsonian's private finances. Although last week's report complained again & again of insufficient Federal aid, the year's appropriations for the National Museum were $716,000, up $61,000 from the preceding year. In addition, PWA allotted $680,000 to build a pachyderm house, an addition to the bird house and a house for small mammals for the zoo in Rock Creek Park...
Though Oldster Hull is proud of having negotiated these tariff treaties, few New Dealers envied him his Minneapolis job, because the reciprocal trade agreements are admittedly unpopular along the Canadian border. NRA, AAA, WPA, PWA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Social Security Act have given or promised cash or privileges to some particular group of voters. But trade reciprocity depends on the abolition of privileges, and few of its beneficiaries are aware of their benefits. Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas...
...Mayor Marvin into the back seat of his automobile between himself and Governor Lehman. Proceeding to Syracuse University to lay the cornerstone of a new College of Medicine unit, he praised local initiative, deftly reminded his listeners that the new building had been made possible by an $825,000 PWA grant, smilingly observed that he had laid many a cornerstone in the past and that so far as he knew none of the structures had yet collapsed...
Next day Rural Electrification Administrator Cooke and Major General Edward M. Markham, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, hastily issued an edict against "political" speeches. New Dealers continued their "non-political" power campaigns. Dr. Harlow S. Person (Rural Electrification) and K. Sewall Wingfield (PWA) criticized private utility management. William Wooden (Federal Trade Commission) declared that the gas industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects...