Business leaders press White House plan to fight recession
Western Union dispatch: Fifty business advisory council members met with President Roosevelt at the White House to urge a defined policy to end the slump. They called for wage hour limits, a truce with utilities, no broad purge of holding companies, and no currency tinkering, with a 25 member panel to sift proposals for admin and legislative action.
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White House
Department of Commerce
Roosevelt
W. Averill
Council
Social Security Fund Shortfall Revealed in 1938 Report
The Social Security and Railroad Retirement funds show expenditures $294,681,344 above tax receipts as of January 1, 1938. Treasury notes this is temporary as taxes fund a reserve for pensions starting that year. Much of the outlay financed state grants to establish social security machinery.
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Perkins
Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee
District of Columbia
Mexico
Finance Department
United States
Hull
Mirai
Buenos
Treasury
Roosevelt consults industrialists as economy sinks
The article notes White House invites leading industrialists labeled as economic royalists to advise on deflation remedies while no administration actions release business to hire workers. It highlights paradox of denouncing holding companies yet hosting their leaders two hours after announcements, signaling policy uncertainty and fear among businesses.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Ickes
Interior Department
Robert H. Jackson
America
Messrs
Jackson
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Hoover
Monopolies, court picks, and anti-lynching bills stir politics
The piece discusses a broad anti monopoly drive led by government figures, the NRA era shifts, and the Justice Department’s actions. It praises Stanley Reed as a strong, principled nominee to the Supreme Court. It notes Southern Democrats resist an anti-lynching bill amid racial politics and Harlem voting dynamics in New York.
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Stanley Formen Reed
Kentucky
Supreme Court
Washington
Senate
Ashurst
Judiciary Committee
George Sutherland
Herbert Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Roosevelt
Paw
Jackson
Ickes
NRA
Department of Justice
Cummings
United States
Stanley Reed
Sutherland
Justice Sutherland
Congress
Mr. Reed
Harrison
Mississippi
Byrnes
South Carolina
Connally
Texas
South
Wagner
New York
New York City
Harlem
Western Newspaper
Uniem
Flower Cutwork For Buffet Set
Simple cutwork pattern ideal for buffet set or doilies. Uses basic buttonhole stitch and varying thread colors. Pattern 5961 includes transfer art of two daily shapes, material needs, stitch illustrations, and color tips. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W 14th St, New York, NY with name, address, and pattern number.
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Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th Street
New York
N. Y
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