Word: states
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lurid or political, at week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...
...legislation by the rural-dominated General Assembly, which would allow Ohio's cities, now legally hog-tied, to raise sufficient taxes for relief. But the chance of Governor Bricker calling a special session this year, thus opening the floodgates to old-age pension bills, and possibly having the State treasury's handsome 1939 surplus swept away, was remote. This was what still kept the gossips gossiping...
...Russians sat tight. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dispatched a message to League Secretary General Joseph A. C. Avenol which declared that the "Soviet Union is not in a state of war with Finland and does not threaten the Finnish people with war." On the contrary, maintained Comrade Molotov, "the Soviet Union maintains peaceful relations with the democratic Republic of Finland" -a reference to the puppet Soviet Government the Russians set up at Terijoki, Finland, fortnight ago (TIME...
...Italy's resignation from the League because of sanctions voted during its Ethiopian campaign became effective early this week. Last week Italian Journalist Virginio Gayda, curiously enough, wrote that Finland had the "right to demand and expect sanctions" against Russia, but scornfully added: "The slave State of Ethiopia did not have that right, for it was guilty of 30 years' aggression against Italy as well as of the most brutal violations of civilized principles." †Switzerland has notified the League that meetings can be held on its territory only if the present war is not discussed...
Scandinavia's predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...