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...election year, no Congress continues bucking a President who wants to spend big money. In May, when Senator Claude Pepper of Florida was renominated on a straight pro-Roosevelt ticket, Congress hastily set about giving Franklin Roosevelt what he wanted (see col. 2). Result was that although the session had maundered futilely along for months, it closed with such a burst of legislation that it left an unusually brief score of work undone. Its chief omissions...
Railroads. Because Labor insisted that the railroad industry give up its demand for a 15% wage cut if a bill for railroad relief was allowed to pass Congress, the session closed without anything being done for the railroads. Result: unless the Interstate Commerce Commission closes its eyes to the facts, and certifies to the RFC that the hard-pressed roads can repay loans made to them (the necessary requisite for RFC loans), it is highly likely that within a few months most U. S. railroads will be bankrupt...
...week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime workers under Joseph P. Ryan in a new organization romantically called the Seafarers' Federation. Result: a new line-up of Labor on the West Coast, the solid front of the Pacific Maritime Federation shattered, new allies for the A. F. of L., a new chance for shipowners to drive a wedge between the warring factions of Labor...
...majority, 75 seats against a total of 63 if all the other parties combined against him. Elected at first with a precarious majority, for the last five years his government has had to depend on Labor support to hold office. Month ago, his own political stock soaring as a result of the Anglo-Irish treaty, "Dev" shrewdly seized upon a minor government rebuff as an excuse to dissolve Parliament and go to the country...
...fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed and killed themselves. When they were released her husband died. Widowed Elizabeth Seton became a convert to Catholicism. Eventually, as the result of persecutions by her onetime friends, she fled Manhattan, went to Baltimore to open the first Catholic parochial school, then to Emmitsburg, Md. to conduct the first American convent for the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with...