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...Even some of Mr. Roosevelt's own New Dealers will be surprised at it. Especially those in TVA, who have been boasting that lower electricity prices will stimulate consumption and who point with pride to the fact that in the TVA area sales of electrical household equipment have increased more than in any other area in the country. . . . [Mr. Roosevelt] has given the Republicans an opening for a real program built upon an effort to restore free competitive prices...
Hearst v. Labor. Lundberg: "Hearst's financial interests, from the very beginning, have made him an implacable enemy of labor. . . . During the closing stages of the [1934 San Francisco general] strike the three Hearst papers in the San Francisco area repeatedly called upon the police to take violent measures against the strikers and the police did shoot and kill. Not satisfied, though the police and Guardsmen were in full charge, the Hearst press demanded that Vigilante bands be formed to proceed against the 'revolutionaries...
...history not with their eyes but with their prejudices," to use the words of Wendell Phillips. The novel is full of the large air of Thomas Jefferson, the Amis des Noirs, the Philadelphia Democrats, the Rights of Man, the French Revolution, and the distant rumble of the full Napoleonic area. Yet the novelist's personality is too weak for these high and mighty personages and events; it reveals itself as equable where it should assume the "saeva indignatio" of Swift. We have a right to expect vigor, because the historical period with which it deals has long been the "moment...
...Washington, the business of the U. S. once more got under way with a Cabinet meeting. Governor Brann of Maine, who threatened to quit the Democratic ticket, had to be seen and conciliated. General Johnson ("stage money") Hagood had to be seen and given command of the Sixth Corps Area at Chicago in place of the Texas command from which he was ousted two months...
...each. For their $10 a year members get up to 21 days bed, board, examinations (including Xray) and treatment in a hospital, if their doctors order it. Patients pay their doctors separately. If a member has an accident anywhere in the U. S. or Canada outside the New York area and is taken to a local hospital, the New York service pays part of his hospital bill. A woman must pay premiums for at least ten months, as Mrs. Laibson did, before she can get her obstetrical bills paid...