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...inconsistency" between the Government's policy of retrenchment and the NRA's policy of expansion. His prime points: 1) Business and industry began to deflate expenses immediately after the 1929 crash whereas for four years the Government added 10,000 workers to its payrolls and attempted to maintain salaries at boom levels in a further attempt to break the depression. 2) This Federal policy produced a series of Treasury deficits which the country voted to end in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 3) The Government is now reorganizing itself on a permanent long-range basis whereas business...
Decided to maintain the Civilian Conservation Corps (forest camps) throughout the winter...
...appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds his public salary, he owes a positive public duty to the community to give a reasonable or credible explanation of the sources of the deposits or the source which enables him to maintain the scale of living beyond the amount of his salary." The Federal administration to date has given the Kelly administration little or no patronage. Carter Harrison, longtime Mayor, son of the 1893 World's Fair Mayor, was made a Collector of Internal Revenue over the Cermak-Kelly candidate for that...
...five shillings the copy, it became a bestseller, the only Blue Book ever published by the British Government which netted a profit. Coming out in 1931 it declared: "Our objectives should be ... first of all to raise prices a long way above the present level and then to maintain them at the level thus reached with as much stability as can be managed.'' It discussed (and rejected) devaluation of currencies; it advocated reducing the legal gold reserves of central banks-all this two years before the U.S. began to consider such proposals. In England Premier Bennett induced...
...vice president of the National Conference on City Planning; Sociologist Edith Elmer Wood, author of Recent Trends in American Housing. The conference talked & talked, adopted resolutions endorsing most opinions advanced. Chief opinions: 1) slum dwellers should be moved to homesteads on city outskirts, encouraged to provide their own food, maintain their own cottages; 2) the Federal Government should eliminate blighted areas with part of the $3,300,000,00 public works fund; 3) all slum property should be converted into public parks...