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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could feel relieved that Congressional items like further WPA investigation and revision of the Wagner Act seemed likely to die of overweight...
...novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told Germans to "think with their blood," but so far "blood-thinking" has produced almost no good books. Hitler himself is the best seller (Mem Kampf with a total sale of over 4,000,000 copies is still tops), yet, despite the 25,000 books a year, the Nazis are continuing to bottle-feed an undersized body of literature that should long ago have outgrown official diapers...
...British plan calls for: 1) a permanently Arab-dominated State with a frozen Arab majority of two to one; 2) restriction of Jewish immigration for the next five years to 75,000, bringing the total Jewish population to approximately 525,000 (Arab population, 990,000); 3) restrictions on the sale of land to Jews; 4) an independent Palestine with guarantees for the Jewish minority, following a ten-year period of increasing self-government...
...plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with Nazi conceptions of national welfare. Capital surpluses went into armaments; the Nazis ceased to build houses. The peasant was bound to his land by laws prohibiting the sale or mortgaging of hereditary homesteads, and farm production was indirectly managed through price-fixing boards. The great drive of Wehrwirtschaft, or war economy...
Chosen for a beginning were 35 songs of the Civil War period (1861-65). Last week the two Civil War albums and a third containing songs of New York State were put on sale...