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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relief. Chief topic of anxiety was Relief-how much and how little. After pondering that question for three month; the only information that the President gave was one sentence, a request of $1,500,000,000 for work relief in fiscal 1938. This figure, biggest in the Budget was the most debatable, since anybody's guess of the number of unemployed is as good as anyone's else. No sooner had the figure been announced than the President's friend Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina proclaimed that $1,000,000,000 would be plenty...
Among the faculty members co-operating will be Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, who has termed the Convention as something that "should help clarify public thinking on this fundamental topic...
Taking up the topic of social security legislation in France, W. A. Sollohub draws together with the differences "striking parallels" between the Frank and American law making. Estimates of the costs of the French system have a direct bearing upon the scale of taxes now in force in this country to meet the expenditures undertaken...
Martyn Green, leading comedian of the D'Oyly Carte Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company will be guest lecturer in English A-4 tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, it was announced last night. His topic will be "From Street Clothes to Character", and the lecture is open to those interested...
...held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another of national concern: the upward spiral of commodity prices. He was visited by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, spokesman for other U. S. mayors, who protested a new PWA rule which requires all of the Federal grants for Public Works projects to be spent on relief labor. This was followed by a visit from a delegation of the House of Representatives who wanted to appropriate $300,000,000 more for PWA, which now has only $155,000,000 left to spend. To both, Franklin Roosevelt answered...