Controversy Over Roosevelt Budget Affects New Deal Strategy
The piece analyzes the $4 billion relief appropriation within a nearly $8 billion budget, noting Congress’s push for clarity on work relief aims. It discusses reactions from Senator Byrnes and critics, the Post Office’s night mail schedules, and tensions between aviation policy, oil production control, and court rulings shaping New Deal economic policy.
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Government ownership would cost every citizen 20 cents daily says Prob ert
L C Probert vice president of Chesapeake and Ohio Lines argues that government ownership of railroads would raise taxes by at least 20 cents per person per day. He notes railroads already pay nearly a million dollars daily in taxes and warns of deficits if the government takes over.
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A Recovery Forecast by Edward A. Filene
Edward A. Filene argues that business must cooperate with the President and that prosperity hinges on mass buying power. He forecasts nationwide unemployment and old age insurance, hopeful spending, and renewed employment unless Congress pursues risky radical currency inflation measures.
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Edward A. Filene
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Building Character By H G Campbell New York Educator
Our youth today so weak that he will fall easily into crime delinquency if school is not nicely adjusted to his tastes. Perseverance was the motto in every class room, now replaced by defeatism. Let us measure individual abilities without mistaking laziness for lack of ability and seek out individual interests while facing distasteful tasks.
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Better Times Ahead
Henry S. Harriman of the U S Chamber of Commerce notes improvement in 1934 with 2 million fewer unemployed than at year's start, farm income up 1.0 billion over 1933 and 1922, corporate profits up 70 percent from last year, and closer cooperation between business and government, signaling a ready stance to meet a changed order.
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Henry S. Harriman
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
MORE BUILDING NEEDED
By JESSE H. JONES R. & C, Chairman. There is a large backwater of building projects held up in recent years. The dam has nearly reached the breaking point and the backwater will be released in 1935. Capital is available and fear of using it is fading.
Cambridge's New Library Boasts 1.25 Million Volumes
Cambridge opens a vast new library with about 1,250,000 books stored along 23 miles of shelves. Designed so every volume is within arm's reach of an average height reader.
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Old Irish Cure Allegedly Used for Whooping Cough
An antiquated practice among Irish peasants involves children holding fish and frog heads in their mouths to treat whooping cough. The tradition is described as a lingering old remedy still cited in rural memory.
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