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...neither was publicly concerned with the volcanoes of prejudice and emotion behind their activities. Both were aware that local machines in the North can give Negroes a semblance of political equality without running into social difficulties. In large cities where the Negro population is packed together in a small area, few whites even have to do business with minor Negro jobholders...
...changed the situation materially and the quarterback will call for a new play," announced Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke last week. The quarterback was again Franklin Roosevelt, and he had just called a new play by appointing Administrator Cooke to be chairman of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee of six, including Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins and Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell. What play the President would call next for the drought areas depended last week on what this little brain trust hatched out before his trip to the West this month...
...amplifier assembly will serve Roosevelt Raceway, a pretzel-shaped automobile track on the site of Roosevelt Airport No. 1. From the glass-enclosed studio on the grandstand top announcements will spray over an area half a mile square, can be stepped up, if necessary, to carry a mile. Thus will be eliminated the jumbling ordinarily caused by announcements issuing simultaneously from loudspeakers at different points on a field. Total power consumption is 20,000 watts, enough to lift a ton 7 feet every second...
While President Roosevelt was last week telling newshawks in his air-cooled White House office how he proposed to inspect the drought area next month, a pert newshawk asked if by any chance he would make a few political speeches on that trip. A deep frown gullied the President's face. Drought, he snapped, was much too serious to mix with politics...
...Midsouth states where livestock was already on the move northward & southward to greener fields. Last month it swung up along the high edge of the Great Plains to the wheat regions of the Dakotas. By last week, after 32 blistering days without a drop of rain, fields in that area yielded nothing but crisp brown stubble. At Mitchell, S. Dak. 11,000 citizens knelt to the tolling of bells in the town's 13 churches one morning last week, devoutly prayed for rain, got none. Instead Dakotans were promised this week a visit from a scouting party...