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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right to a Job." Aubrey Williams, emotional Deputy WPAdministrator in Washington, who last fortnight bluntly told WPAsters how to vote (see p. 13), last week bluntly stated to the Conference his basic conception of Work Relief as a permanent U. S. institution. He defended the "idiotic idea that it was the duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic...
...been at the top of North Dakota's political heap. But Governor Langer (whom the Federal Government tried, and failed, to jail in 1934 for openly levying on Relief clients for his campaign funds), called a demagogue by his opponents, a champion by his friends, is a potent vote getter. Mr. Langer, once Mr. Nye's good friend, called him a Peace "racketeer," a Washington nonentity who got nothing for his State. Mr. Nye, who has built up his own Progressive Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League to Mr. Langer, retorted that the Langer administration...
...death of Senator Royal S. Copeland fortnight ago left the most populous State's three biggest political jobs to be filled at once. Because Governor Lehman was drafted against his will to strengthen the New Deal ticket in 1936 and then did not prove as big a vote-getter as the President, the assumption was that he would step aside in favor of another gubernatorial candidate, possibly popular Bob Wagner. While Franklin Roosevelt's lieutenants pondered what would be the best political line-up to meet this unexpected situation in a key State, a snag arose. Executive Secretary...
...Haven, Conn. Center Church and long a member of the denominational boards Mr. Babson has been attacking. Undiscouraged, Roger Babson demanded an increase in the salaries of 75% of the church's pastors ("to raise them to the level of bricklayers'"), called for a vote on his plan to give the 6,000 Congregational and Christian churches in the U. S. a delegate to the council. Thereupon sober churchmen resorted to a mediator. They succeeded in suppressing a sharp reply to Mr. Babson, which had been printed for distribution to the delegates, and winning from Mr. Babson...
...week's end Mr. Babson had agreed that a vote on his representation plan, offered as an amendment to the church's constitution, should be tabled until the 1940 convention. But Mr. Babson still had a few more pearls to cast. In his official address as retiring moderator, he predicted a new revolt in Protestantism, back to primitive Christianity. It will include, said he, "a revolt against a few socialistic or capitalistic delegates, at national church conclaves, passing resolutions pretending to bind the entire membership." But the pearls lay where they fell. The convention proceeded to do just...