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Early in the Great Depression, President Hoover pledged industrialists to maintain wages in spite of falling prices. Since he has assumed the whip, President Roosevelt has continually tried to force wages higher as a prosperity measure. Now, in immediate prospect is an increase to a flat nation-wide minimum of 40 cents an hour together with a 40 hour per week maximum. These measures have arisen out of a native confidence in under-consumption theories of depression. Two administrations have assumed that the path of roses to prosperity lies in boosting wage incomes so that laborers buy more...
...Government should be the policeman to exercise only that power necessary to maintain an orderly method of living. . . . Unfortunately the Government is not functioning as a policeman, and that is because the Government is in the hands of finance...
...Their bodies had been shipped to undertakers in the vicinity, to be kept against the next spring buryings. When the last April mule market closed, the Irishmen put their families into their cars, mostly new ones with trailers, and set out for Mrs. Robertson's. They maintain stoutly that they are not a clan, just a large group of countrymen with a common trade. No one knows how the meetings started, but they have been going on for 50 years. Last week, after appropriate ceremonies, the Irishmen deposited their six bodies in the Mt. Calvary cemetery, had a small...
...Tribune, was willing to take part of the credit. Claiming similarities between the Supreme Court decision and "the briefs and arguments" presented in cases involving newspapers, the committee arrived at the conclusion that the Lovell decision "should silence those people who have been pretending that our long battle to maintain freedom of the press has been a selfish effort to maintain a special privilege...
Asserting that only by a stationary birth rate can a modern nation maintain the present high standard of living, Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish lecturer, warned an audience of 150 people of the dangers of a declining birth rate, yesterday afternoon in New Lecture Hall...