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...professional writer publishes another book, but in this second year of the U. S. New Deal it is news when a busy Secretary of Agriculture and an ex-President of the U. S. each write one. Secretary Wallace dictated his 83,000 words into a dictaphone, finished the first draft in three months. Ex-President Hoover simmered over his 50,000 words for a year. As books, Bertrand Russell's is incomparably the best of the three, but more readers will prefer to hear what Authors Wallace and Hoover have to say for and against the New Deal rather than...
...competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft of the cotton textile code down on Franklin Roosevelt's desk...
...When we examine the draft statistics for the northwestern States we deal with a population that has been exposed to the severe climatic conditions of the region for only two generations, since the mass of the population has been settled there since 1880 Here we have a new stock exposed to unusually severe climatic conditions and, in addition, living at a relatively high altitude. . . Here we have the genital malformations in the region of the cyclonic infall and along the storm tracks. Is it not likely that these malformations, which would tend to diminish in frequency in an older, permanently...
...Centro in California's Imperial Valley the temperature last week rose to 122° F. Stepping out of doors was like walking into a blast furnace's draft. Snakes and lizards, whose muscles stiffen with rigor caloris at 104°, died. But insects, which can function at 147°, and animals, with a system of maintaining body temperatures at normal regardless of climate, pursued their ordinary activities, as did the men, women and children of El Centro. Women dressed in organdie; men went without coats. Everyone wore hats to prevent sunstroke. But of heat stroke there was no fear...
...three-year term went to trade commissioner James McCauley Landis, who helped draft the Stock Exchange Act and has been itching to get his regulatory fingers on Wall Street...