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...addition, the economy will be shored up by built-in stabilizers, e.g., unemploy ment compensation (which the President wants to broaden), social security, farm price supports. To give the economy a push, the excess-profits tax has been eliminated and the President has proposed a new business "incentive" tax program...
...Francisco for the convention of the American Newspaper Guild, of which he is president, Columnist Heywood Broun last week took a sideswipe at the employer who is soon to unemploy him. Said...
...purpose of this project is to move families from city slums to small tracts of land where they can live cheaply and comfortably, raise chickens and vegetables. The first locality selected was Morgantown, W. Va., the second Dayton. Dayton had already evolved a similar scheme to relieve its pressing unemploy ment problem, had set up social agencies to teach destitute families to bake bread, can fruit, repair shoes, make furniture...
...pail? . . . Bank failures blazed in the headlines of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy proceedings,, fore closures on mortgages, depreciation in the value of prime securities, paralysis of busi ness & industry and. topping it all, 7,000,000 men out of work. . . . The Administration plans for the relief of unemploy ment are indefensible. . . . Why, they passed the question along to the States. localities and private charities [which] cannot cope with the situation. . . . Now, what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second is what we call 'made work.' . . . Home re lief...
Press leaders against the tariff were the Scripps-Howard chain (25 papers) and the Hearst chain (24 papers). By word and picture they flayed "the billion-dollar Grundy Bill." The Scripps-Howard newspapers interviewed Henry Ford, quoted him as saying the bill would "stultify business and industry and increase unemploy-ment." Scripps-Howard statisticians in Washington broadcast to all papers in the chain doleful stories of what would happen if H. R. 2667 became law. An example : "The Grundy Tariff Bill will dog Americans' footsteps from the cradle to the grave?and after. The tomb will be no sanctuary from...
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