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...night conference at the White House President Hoover summoned three Republican Senators and one Republican Representative now engaged in trying to devise a compromise economy bill. He told them the budget was still unbalanced by about $200,000,000. He insisted Congress stay in session until its fiscal job was done. Dolefully remarked Indiana's Representative Wood: "I think we'll be celebrating our Fourth of July right here in Washington...
...bill enacted fortnight ago failed to balance the Budget even roughly, by about $350,000,000. To fill up this gap Congress was expected to effect special economies of about $250,000,000 and reduce appropriations by $100,000,000. Last month the House of Representatives was presented with a $263,000,000 economy bill. When the House finished with it, the measure represented an estimated saving of somewhere around $40,000,000. Last week when its turn came to save in a big way, the Senate also faltered, lost its nerve...
...will take could be negatively deduced from M. Herriot's refusal last week to support a Socialist program which contained these leading points: 1) reduction of military expenses to the 1928 level; 2) retention of the limited French unemployment relief no matter what economies are effected to balance the budget; 3) nationalization of those French railways not already run by the State; 4) Government control of banking and all large fiscal operations...
...nine years it has promoted Race Relations Sunday (Feb. 14 this year) in the churches. This year it completed a five-year trial period in administering the Harmon Awards for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes. Working with a small budget ($20,000 this year) it is in contact with some 80 Race Relations groups throughout the land, hopes to see one in every community where race problems exist.* During the past year the Commission has found, to its vexation, much discrimination in unemployment relief. Says the report: "The crucial situation between whites and Negroes was dramatically impressed upon America last year...
Motivation of the change was the prospect of a balanced Federal Budget. New York banks, previously aloof from the bondmarket because of fears regarding Congress (TIME, June 6), made good their promise that a balanced Budget would send resources sweeping into the investment market. Suddenly formed and announced was an American Securities In- vesting Corp. into the coffers of which 20 Manhattan banks poured...