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...lending power, its vital function, was due to expire Jan. 31. Its great days were gone with the emergency which called it into being. For a year it had been chiefly winding up its affairs, collecting old loans, making few new ones.* But President Roosevelt wanted its lending powers, and those of four subordinate credit agencies,** extended to June 30, 1939. A bill to that effect was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee...
Quoting several Supreme Court decisions, Eastman pointed out that the duties of the Commission were quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial, and that emphasis in his opinion should be placed on the former function. He then went on to explain the set-up of the Commission, and discussed at some length the varius committees, staffs, and bureaus...
Expenditures- "The normal growth of the country naturally reflects itself in increased costs of government. . . . The cost of new functions and duties can be substantially reduced only by curtailing the function or the duty." So wrote the President last week. Before Depression the War and Navy Departments together spent in a typical year about $700,000,000. The 1938 budget provided $981,000,000 for national defense...
...that blew up, she landed a job as secretary to Isadora Duncan. With aging Isadora and her young husband Sergei Essenine, Russian poet, she flitted from hotel to resort for temperamental months. Because Isadora could speak only pidgin Russian and Essenine could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...
...uneven course of their romance does net require Miss Clarke to function as target for Cagney's grapefruit throwing, as she did in Public Enemy, but the affair is at least brightly controversial. When Johnny catches the ward leader and his fiancee's boss trying to destroy evidence he has collected to show that both of them are grafters, the result is the most satisfying foot-&-fist work shown...