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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Youth Administration is a part, was to disband the county bureau and substitute their political agents who know nothing of the country, nothing about public works and nothing about administration. And who do you think has now been selected in addition to our numerous Federal missionaries to save the youth of Westchester at $3,000 a year? None other than Mr. Hopkins' sister, Mrs. Adah Hopkins Aime...
...miles away, Franklin Roosevelt sat with his finger on the siren button, saying, "Norris Dam is a practical symbol of better life. . . ." ¶Two and a half years ago Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman was given the job of working out means by which railroads could cooperate to save themselves and the public money. Before his job expires next June, he is anxious to accomplish an annual saving of $18,000,000 by consolidating railway terminals in eleven cities. Alarmed that men might be thrown out of work, Labor objected, argued for two months with the roads...
...Deal days every member of the Cabinet entertained the President once a year at dinner. To save himself from putting on evening dress nine unnecessary times, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated the custom of letting the Cabinet give him one big joint dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly...
...unique "effort to save Manchester [N. H.] from disaster," a ballot was taken there last week to see whether workers would agree to a 15% wage cut and "permanent peaceful operations" of the huge textile mills of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., the city's biggest industry, normally employing one-seventh of its total population (76,834). Amoskeag closed its mills last September, is now in 776 reorganization, admittedly faces possible liquidation because it cannot compete with low-wage Southern textile mills. No less than 3,669 of Amoskeag's workless workers (a slim majority of those voting) accepted...
...Just as Bud seems on the verge of losing something more valuable than life itself, and succumbing to the wicked temptation to travel the sinful road to Hollywood, the right and noble influences of Miss Arden's publicity manager and the well-timed entrance of a reliable maiden aunt save the day for truth and beauty...