Relief as Symptom of Unemployment in New Deal Policy
The article critiques the new federal work relief wage scale from 19 to 94 dollars a month, averaging 50, arguing it won’t feed families. It condemns restricting surplus food for relief workers and warns relief is a symptom, not the disease, with unemployment the real problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Perkins
Wagner
New National Labor Relations Board
Miss Perkins
Lloyd K. Garrison
Harry Millis
Labor Department
House
Connery
House Labor Committee
Ohio highway funds idle as federal aid floods needed roads
An editorial laments the lack of new state and county highway construction in Ohio despite available federal funds. It notes slow federal red tape, idle money awaiting allotment, and a looming fall push for joint road projects while motorists bear higher taxes for deteriorating highways.
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Ohio
Washington
Best
Pork and party machinery drive federal spending
The text argues that large federal funds are spent to lubricate party machines, with leaders unable to deny pork to followers. It contends the five-billion dollar fund is used on a pro-Roosevelt basis, despite denials by high officials and the influence of party machines and humanitarian rhetoric.
New Dealers wary on LIRA and silver policy
In Washington the New Deal leads fear Mussolini may devalue his currency to fund war plans in Ethiopia as silver purchases aim for a $1.29 ounce goal within four years. Observers note Italy and Japan buying ships from US yards, while Pecora contemplates a possible New Deal generalissimo role in investigations.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Japan
United States Shipping Board Bureau
Italy
Ace Inquisitor
Pecora
Roosevelt
New York Supreme Court
New Deal
Generalissimo
Congress
Federal Communications Commission
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Senate
Federal Power Commission
Behind the Scenes Fight Fire With Fire at MIT
MIT insiders recount using aggressive methods to manage campus crises while clinging to roles for another four years. Faculty voices warn the approach distracts from core goals and fuels burnout amid ongoing tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mit
Too Much Science Hay stored longer in silos cuts nostalgia for hay farming
City dwellers resist the idea that haystack and haymow will yield to a new silo keeping hay dry without curing. Farm scientists say the process ends rains heating haymows and stacking work, though many older farmers may miss haying memories even as they gain ease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phaeton
Surry
District Tales of Long Ago
An 1863 incident recounts Morgan's raid through a village where only mild misdeeds were reported. Chauncey Holcomb, then a boy, narrowly escaped accusation, later becoming a noted Gallipolis lawyer. A missing youth, Stephen Anderson, haunts the tale as the raid’s aftermath unfolds with a double surrender at Ewington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Morgan
Chauncey M. Holcomb
Morgan
Chauncey M Holcomb
Robinson Breare
Ewington
Vinton
Gallia County
Scioto County
Louis Sontag
Minford
Poets' Corner Verses and Local Notes from Athens
Poets' Corner features reader verses including Edna Harpold and A L Tryon from Athens Ohio with themes of travel politics and taxes. The second poem tells of a rose and lasting love attributed to Mrs Oakley Addis at 244 State St Athens Ohio.
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Edna Harpold
Twan
Oakley Addis
F State St
Athens
Public Forum on World Events and Dictatorship
A reader debates Italy and Germany under Mussolini and the Nazis. The letter argues Americans value liberty yet misunderstand dictatorial rule, noting the appeal of decisive action and the peril of division and delay in forming a dictatorship.
Ten years ago sparked sports and social scenes in Athens
Ten years ago Stanley Coveleskie thrilled Big League fans while Richard Dix Eugene O'Brien and Laura LaPlante played locally. Ohio University enrolled 140 VBS students. Eastland disaster and another ship torpedoed marked grim news. Social events noted at Country Club Colonial Hotel and campus camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Dix
Eugene O'Brien
Laura LaPlante
Crest Lake affair tests Jo Darien and Peter Fragonet
Jo Darien, finishing her first college year, works at a marine supply store and accepts a hostess post at Douglas Marsh's Crest Lake inn. A love triangle with Fragonet and Marsh deepens as a jealous Edna Fragonet exposes tensions and Jo faces an angry confrontation and dangerous consequences at the inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JO Darien
Douglas Marsh
Crest Lake
Bret Paul
Marsh
Babs Montgomery
Peter Fragonet
Fragonet
Iater Fragonet
Peter
Edna Fragonet
Mrs. Marsh
Miss Darien
Fdna
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the Public Forum
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the Vacation Bible School
A. FE. Wagner
Merle
Mabel
Lheyd
Robert
Ralph
Robert C. Hess
Richard H. Galigher
Byron Wolfe
Edith Carpenter
Ena Nelson
Colonial Hotel
Ohio University
C. D. Hopkins
Helen Roush
Janette Dew
Derre Moore
Margaret Dailey
Florence Carr
Grace Roush
Rachel Hopkins
Garnet Beverage
Chicago
Los Angeles
Eastland
Chicago River
LOS Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Granteville Cemetery
S.C
Davenport
King Few
Andy Iain
Doug
Edna
Mrs. Fragonet
Miss Derien
Hollywood
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