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...soften the inevitable shock of saddling his colt President Roosevelt called in the White House newshawks for an explanation of his budget. Each had to go to the Treasury, sign his name to an oath of absolute secrecy before he was handed a copy of the President's budget message, a copy of the 900-page budget. Then the correspondents hurried up the street to the White House Offices, were received by the President with Secretary Morgenthau and Budget Director Bell, one at each elbow. For an hour the newshawks were allowed to ask all the foolish questions they...
Next week the Securities Act of 1933 celebrates its first year on the Federal statute books.* Last week Congress made its first serious move to soften the provisions of a law which has been more hotly debated and disputed by the financial community than any other New Deal measure. But a full year's loud talk has left unanswered the old question: Did the Securities Act dry up the capital market or would new investments by the public have been just as scanty regardless of the law? Most notable fact about the Securities Act's first year...
...equal to France's); 3) preparations for the conversion of all factories to war purposes; 4) coordination of the entire national defense. Bumbling Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservative Party, was milder, but even he admitted that strengthening Britain's armaments was no improbability. He attempted to soften the news by blaming everything on the U. S. : "There was no more reeling blow struck at that new attempt in Europe [the League of Nations] than when the American Congress refused to support Wilson. The security that France, with her wounds still bleeding, thought she had got from Wilson...
...ideas were popping into the editors' heads by the dozen. They dropped a few clues by signing their letters with the name of a famed Soviet comic character, "O. Bender," and with "William Tell, Trust Secretary." To soften the hardships of their Kazakstan expedition, they got special rates on extra food, phonographs, records, banjos and guitars. Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested...
...major mechanical innovation of the year-independent front wheel suspension. Heretofore front springs had to be made stiffer than rear ones to hold the front wheels rigid for steering. A front wheel bump tended to jounce the car up & down on the rear springs. To overcome this obstacle and soften the front springs engineers have now mounted each front wheel on springs which act independently, thus replacing the rigid front axle...