Roosevelt Plan Proposes Vast Public Works Push
President Roosevelt asks Congress to authorize seven billion dollars in spending and lending for recovery and relief. The plan includes Works Progress administration farm security housing authority and federal lending, plus bank credit and tax changes to accelerate private finance. Opposition lawmakers in both houses voice concern over size and speed of the program.
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Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
Farm Security Administration
National Youth Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Reconstruction Corporation
United States Housing Authority
Federal Reserve Board
Security Commission
Jones Opens Large Lending Pool Amid Labor Split
JESSE JONES chairman of the RFC says a pool of 1.5 billion dollars is available to lend to business, states, and cities and asks bankers to pass unmet loan applications to his corporation. He warns loans require reasonable security but expects to back investments and prevent surplus disposals. Meanwhile CI O unity falters as John L Lewis plans a permanent organization under a new name with a fall convention to merge 39 unions, while CIO leaders threaten lawmakers to enact a full recovery program before adjournment.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
C. S. CO
Lewis
Philip Murray
Sidney Hillman
Congress
Wheat acreage allotments set by 1938 farm program
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration allocates 62,500,000 acres to 42 wheat states under the 1938 plan. State allotments reflect ten year planting and diversion. farmers in compliance receive 12 cents per bushel on average yield. A 90 cent per bushel penalty applies to overages, with no deductions this year if farmers cut other soil depleting crops to stay within totals. State figures include Iowa 456,037. Kansas 12,519,879. Minnesota 1,609,218. Nebraska 3,446,075. North Dakota 9,431,355. South Dakota 3,345,403.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Pan American Day Address by Roosevelt Promotes Peace
President Roosevelt delivered a world broadcast marking Pan American Day. He warned aggressor nations that the peoples of the American republics will defend peace in the hemisphere, even at the cost of life, and upheld the good neighbor policy with Central and South American nations.
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Roosevelt
Roosevelt Defeat Signals Shift in Reform Fight
The House defeat of Roosevelt’s federal reorganization plan marks a political rebuke amid fears of dictatorial power. The vote 204 to 196 reflected distrust of Roosevelt’s approach and the broader split within Congress over executive power and court expansion. Roosevelt faced criticism for remarks at Warm Springs and a controversial push that amplified constitutional concerns. The episode underscores a clash between presidential ambition and legislative independence.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Senate
Sen
Hiram Johnson
California
Storm
Roosevelt dictatorship claim sinks reform bill in Congress
The piece analyzes reactions to the proposed reorganization bill and Roosevelt’s denial of dictatorship. It argues the bill’s passage would have given the President broad control of spending and patronage, notes political pressure against it, and suggests the defeat signals the waning of New Deal dominance.
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America
Roosevelt
House
Representative Barton
New York
Speaker
Supreme Court
President
Interstate Commerce Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
General Accounting Office
Civil Service Commission
Congress
Pendergast
Kansas City
Kelly-Nash
Chicago
Guffey
Pennsylvania
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Washington
Western Newspaper Union
Colorful Apron Pattern for Gift or Bazaar
Fun apron design with a tulip pocket and appliqued flowers. Includes transfer pattern, patch pieces, stitch illustrations, and material lists. Pattern 1635 available from The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York. Send 15 cents and return name address pattern number plainly.
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Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
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