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Section 7a of the Recovery Act granted a definite victory to the forces of organized labor in this country, but for a time it seemed that that victory would be an empty one. Labor took the first oportunity of embarrassing business, at the beginning of a slight industrial upturn, and through its usual obstinacy and arrogance, failed to gain its ends, but winning instead the general contempt of the country. This has been the usual trend of labor difficulties in recent years, but the failure is due to the men who have dominated the organizations, and not to the laboring...
...last week the upturn in college enrollments indicated by early registration reports was definitely established. Graduate enrollments were generally down, upperclass figures showed small change. But the entering freshmen numbered from 10% to 35% more than last year. Harvard had the largest undergraduate enrollment in its history and Pennsylvania State, University of California and University of Texas showed record sum-totals. Other campus news of last fortnight...
...come back to 95, highest of all Western nations except Russia (Britain- 92; U. S.-66). Furthermore, Sweden's unfavorable balance of trade dwindled from 203,000,000 kronor ($52,780,000 Roosevelt) in 1932 to only 11,800,000 in 1933. But for Sweden's upturn they had many other reasons: the great public works program begun in 1933; the thrift and conservatism of Swedes; the exemplary caution of Swedish savings banks; the huge cooperative union controlling nearly one-half of Sweden's trade in food and clothing; and Government ownership of the Swedish railways, telegraph...
...best indications now are that a slow laborious upturn in business is in the making and may show possibly a greater than seasonal advance during the coming weeks. Perhaps the most encouraging index is the activity in retail merchandising. This advance is due directly to governmental spending. The government is not only priming but pumping the pump. An industrial truce as suggested by the President would prove extremely helpful to business in general...
...Rome the Dictator's bureau of vital statistics claimed that his "Battle of the Babies" has at last entered the winning phase, arresting Italy's declining population, producing a slight upturn. The population as of June was 42.424,873 against 42,007,916 in June 1933, with marriages up from 132,484 to 134,736 and births up from...