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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stealing a three-day weekend. President Roosevelt skipped off to Hyde Park, found his mother in bed with a "slightly fractured" thighbone, the result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington...
...have the world by the tail with a downhill pull on this thing, Earl, if we work it right . . ." wrote he from Washington. "You should be here to see the jitters that some of the Congressmen are in as a result of the mandates they are receiving from their constituents. It is fun. I am always spoken of as a soft-voiced, mild-mannered old chap. I have not received an unfriendly word from a single man at the Capitol building...
...committee moved to down this new tax from the 42% high set by the House to 4%. But when the majority next threatened to do away with the tax altogether, Pat Harrison tossed out a counter-threat to write a minority report, take the fight to the Senate floor. Result was a compromise on a 7% undistributed profits tax (except for banks, trust companies, insurance companies and certain corporations). Bargains were also driven...
...Deal's policy of lowering tariffs by reciprocal trade treaties. In Washington, President Roosevelt had upped the tariff on Japanese cotton cloth by a thumping 42%. Certain results of this move will be to put more money in the pockets of U. S. textile millers, make U. S. consumers pay more for nightgowns, children's underwear, men's handkerchiefs. A possible result may be the loss to U. S. cotton-growers of an appreciable part of their best market. The President's explanation of this set-back to his trade-expansion program was that he proposes...
...negative side of the picture is not unknown. Often the phrase "half a lifetime being educated" crops up. But more than that, suppose a graduate student spends his early twenties being educated and manages to secure a job. What then of the end result; is his income necessarily and measurably more comfortable than that of the unadorned college graduate? Or perhaps, after he has had graduate work and becomes a job-holder, there may be five years "with a reputable firm" on a pittance which is not by any stroke of the imagination a living wage. The architect is often...