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...Last week the White House got nine new automobiles?three Lincolns, three Cadillacs, three Fierce-Arrows. The Government, instead of buying the cars outright, has contracts with their manufacturers calling for replacements every year. Each of the President's three secretaries is assigned a limousine. Mr. & Mrs. Hoover each have two for their own use. Two more are reserved for White House guests...
...million last week nobody seemed to doubt. At first competitive bidders but finally fellow stock-holders with President Paley were Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., Lehman Corp., Field, Glore & Co. and Herbert Bayard Swope. Columbia's gross business in 1931 was $11,000,000. It owns five stations outright, has 91 affiliates, is the world's largest radio broadcasting system...
That evening Le Temps of Paris, often the mouthpiece of the French Government, called Delegate Nadolny "clumsy," added, "The sole surprise in the German plan is that it does not stipulate outright for revision of the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles...
...steering committee of Democrats, Montana's Walsh, New York's Wagner, Arkansas' Robinson, studied compromise programs. They brought back several and out of the amendment boiling-pot one was finally concocted, to wit: a $750,000,000 Federal appropriation, half of which would be given the States outright for road construction, the other half to be loaned to States whose Governors, promising laws for repayment, certified that their relief agencies were no longer operative. An alternate proposal by New York's Senator Wagner, wise to joblessness, was that the money be apportioned to States on the basis of their unemployment...
...that during this depression the purchasing power of the dollar has increased about 15 per cent." He also stressed the reduced private incomes of individuals such as Harvard fathers. We believe that he might benefit some thousands of Harvard fathers who suffer from reduced incomes and in some cases, outright loss of positions, by explaining why in the name of heaven the law of increased purchasing power does not apply in this sanctified locality. We grant the expenditure of approximately three dollars by the University for every one it receives from us and we realize the burden imposed...