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Buck-Passing. From this background, Congress cynically watched the White House to see if the President would dare suggest Federal economies. But Mr. Roosevelt had just recommended a $158,000,000 expansion of the NYA program. Recently when reporters brought the matter up, the President growled like a sore bear. He defended the NYA and CCC appropriations, then passed the buck back again...
...Horacio Damianovich, founder of Santa Fé's School of Chemistry, who last week busied himself taking up a private collection for the boy. The chief chemist of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Argentine branch examined Jorge, found he has the chemical background of a college sophomore. A charming, volatile lad, Jorge can rattle off the laws of Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Pascal, Torricelli faster than most scholars twice his age can follow. Last week Santa Fé's Parliament debated the question of appropriating 50,000 pesos to continue his education, decided to turn...
...often a synonym for dullness, even the pages of the "Guardian," but R. A. Horne's "Can Congress Abolish the Poll Tax?" holds the reader's interest throughout, yet discusses a complicated legal and constitutional question in all its ramification. Hence also manage to provide a thorough background for his particular subjects with a few paragraphs on the whole poll tax situation...
Late last week, after prying deep into Schram's wholesome background, beaten Wall Street almost felt confident again. Two Stock Exchange seats sold for $27,000, up $7,000 from the previous sale. With a farmer at the helm, anything could happen-and things could hardly get worse...
...dramatic new idea, but also those who are doing the actual running of the extending government enterprises: in short, managers. These men include some of the clearest-headed of all managers to be found in any country. They are confident and aggressive. Though many of them have some background in Marxism, they have no faith in the masses of such a sort as to lead them to believe in the ideal of a free, classless society. At the same time, they are sometimes openly scornful of capitalists and capitalist ideas. They ... are not so squeamish as to insist that their...