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...years Mayor Edward J. Kelly has waged a battle to force the railroad out. Last week the two finally came to terms. The railroad agreed to move at once; Mayor Kelly agreed to spend some $350,000 buying a half-interest in the new right of way, give it outright to the railroad...
...good scare was thrown into U. S. retailers last summer when the New Deal manifested a sudden interest in the broad subject of consumer cooperatives. An outright endorsement of the co-op movement was actually drafted for the Democratic platform, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was plugging the idea in book and magazine, and President Roosevelt was so impressed by Marquis W. Childs's Sweden: The Middle Way that he dispatched a commission to Europe to study co-ops on their native soil. The co-op commission spent more than two months abroad, returning to find that co-operation...
...sharply with general business Recovery, and record armament programs have jumped Europe's consumption near record levels in history, there was apparent by last week still another reason for the copper boom. Vast amounts of the red metal were going into hoarding, either by profiteers or as outright war reserves. Estimates of total copper hoarding in Europe ran as high as 400,000,000 lb., equal to nearly one-fourth the entire U. S. output last year...
...quietly repealed at some time in the distant future. Unlike other opponents of oath legislation, he does not realize that such a law can never become a "dead letter". As long as it remains on the statute books of the Commonwealth it must be, if not an outright threat, at least an unwarranted reflection upon the teaching profession...
Without doubt, the law, if alone, would soon be forgotten. But this would imply compete surrender on the part of the teaching profession and give encouragement to those who would furthere interfere with academic freedom. The only real victory would be in outright repeal of the law at the earliest possible moment. It would denote the complete vindication of the teachers by the people of the Commonwealth and a warning to the legislature against future action of this kind...