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Bilbo's man Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near...
Last year, however, Yardlings voted against class elections after several years of agitation against a system of voting for officers when no Freshman could know more than one out of five of his 1000 classmates. Elections were voted down in a referendum by a 432 to 179 margin and the Union Committee stayed in office for the rest of the year...
...contrast to Goodyear, which is decentralized, Goodrich is concentrated in Akron, blames 25-75% higher wages for its inability in the past to show as high a profit margin...
...restoring the prevailing-wage principle to Relief, 2) softening the rule furloughing all WPA workers who have been on the rolls more than 18 months, 3) reviving the Federal Theatre project under WPA, 4) authorizing Farm Mortgage Corp. to refinance mortgages when normal farm income yields insufficient margin for debt service...
...from 1938) fell 10% below the $65,180,129 of applications received in the same period last year. This reversal was due to a sharp drop in applications on houses already built. But applications for houses to be built ran only 15% ahead of last year against a margin of 68% enjoyed earlier in the year. To offset this, FHA this week made another reduction in the maximum interest rate-from 5% to 4½%. Reason: cutting the rate last year from 52% to 5% produced an immediate increase in building and New York City...