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...most momentous sessions in U. S. history. It will have to ratify or reject President Hoover's moratorium on Europe's debts. With a huge Treasury deficit on hand, it will have to debate taxation. At the same time it will debate a national Dole and, though the American Legion voted self-denial, there will be a fight to pay the Bonus in cash, in part if not in full. With Bar, Labor and Legion behind them, the Wet members will more militantly than ever agitate altering Prohibition. The World Court and disarmament are two other live issues...
...Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain, militant Conservatives have been pounding Scot MacDonald to decree an immediate election. Their reasons: 1) The National Government's 10% cut in the dole will be felt increasingly as time goes on, discontent meaning more & more Labor votes the longer an election is delayed. 2) The rise in internal prices due to the National Government's taking the pound off gold means that Britons will soon pay more for bread and meat, may swing toward Labor in their wrath. 3) Conservative strategists think present days of crisis are the ideal time to convince...
President Lowell's refusal to permit Harvard athletes to become commercial dole-subsidizers by the transfer of the Army-Harvard football game to the Yankee Stadium is the only answer to an unwelcome proposal. Nor would the President have been able to justify allowing the Harvard football team to take the chance of becoming a political pawn even at the center of the universe...
...Dole. The Unemployment Insurance Act, or Dole, was passed in 1920 and later liberalized. By 1928 unemployment had increased so rapidly that the Dole alone was costing the country $100,000,000 a year. The cost last year was nearly five times that much...
...Minister Sewall received the transfer of the islands' sovereignty to the U. S. from President Sanford Ballard Dole of the Hawaiian Republic...