Roosevelt policies in review shape price and trust busting
The piece surveys Roosevelt era policy shifts pursuing price stability and export balance, noting receding inflation hopes and a rising focus on farm aid while detailing antitrust actions. It cites the oil and aluminum cases, NRA ties, and questions if new programs will yield balanced expansion.
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Inventor Rev William Lee Pioneered Silk Stockings Machine
A Nottingham clergyman Rev William Lee observed his wife knitting and devised a machine to knit stockings. He created the first silk stockings on his crude device but died poor due to prejudice. In 1864 William Cotton of Loughborough refined the Lee principle and a machine spread worldwide.
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NO ARMS FOR HIM
Frank Littell of Mt. Vernon Iowa student at Union Theological Seminary New York who represented the National Council of Methodist Youth before the house naval committee on the United States naval building program attacked President Roosevelt s request for increased military expenditures as anti social action and said the young men he represented will not bear arms in event of war.
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