Word: valley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Opinion- Biggest development of last week was the first appearance of signs that the public was ready to demand law & order and defend the right to work. In the Mahoning Valley around Youngstown, Ohio sheriffs' deputies made their first serious attempt to disarm pickets who held possession of roads around the steel plants. Meeting one night in Youngstown while pickets under police guard were demonstrating in the street below, the Youngstown city council by vote of 6-to-1 granted Mayor Lionel Evans full authority to increase the police force and buy as much additional equipment...
...Franklin Roosevelt sent Congress a message which, he indicated, rounded out his program for 1937. It called for the creation of regional agencies similar to TVA, which would become one of seven dividing the whole U. S.: one for the Atlantic Seaboard, one for the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, one for the deep South (TVA), one for the Missouri Basin, one for the Arkansas Valley and Texas, one for the Columbia River Valley (already in formation), one for California and the Colorado River Basin. These would undertake national planning in their respective spheres, cope with flood control, soil erosion...
...Ohio's Mahoning Valley, site of several Republic and Youngstown plants, other maneuvers were afoot. Basic strategy of all three steel companies was to sit tight, wait for back-to-work movements to start among such of their workers as were not actively allied with the S. W. 0. C. strike. They counted on aroused public feeling to assure protection for men going back to work. The Youngstown plants were entirely shut down, in charge of company maintenance men. Republic plants were in partial operation. All were in a state of close siege by strikers. Around the Republic plant...
...broadcast, big advertisements appeared with the scarehead: THIS is THE STORY THE RADIO KEPT FROM You. Below the condensed versions of undelivered speeches were the signatures not only of the principal chains but also of the Chester County Dairymen's Co-Operative Association, the Lehigh Valley Co-Operative Farmers' Association and the South York County Dairymen's Association...
...Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold of the hills eleven miles from Union Pacific's famed new Sun Valley Lodge, he built an exact duplicate of a Swiss village, including an outdoor skating rink...