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...preferred quiet negotiation to violent demonstration. In the Alliance's executive board's report at Cleveland, President Lasser and his 25 colleagues claimed credit for: a raise in Southern relief minima from $21 to $26 per month; sufficient Federal relief funds to care for the present peak of 3,102,000 WPAsters (see col. 1); a growing respect for the Alliance in Congress. David Lasser's next demands on Harry Hopkins and Congress will be a 20% increase in WPA wages, to bring them up to local union standards, and a $6,600,000,000 work relief...
Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams last week announced the fourth successive all-time peak for WPA rolls in as many weeks, a new high of 3,102,000 clients. At the same time he proudly made another announcement: that 166,167 WPAsters had left the rolls in July (a 6.1% monthly turnover), of whom 40,000 gave as their reason that they were taking private jobs. "These facts." asserted Mr. Williams, "indicate that WPA is fulfilling its mission of supplying temporary employment in periods of emergency rather than 'careers,' as has frequently been charged...
...minority of concertgoers are chamber-music fans. But, like most minorities, they are dogged. Among the most tenacious of the lot is Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, a portly, good-natured, partly-deaf widow who spends her summers near Pittsfield, Mass. Twenty years ago, when the World War was at its peak...
...jitterbugs will like Garden of the Moon remains to be seen, but normal cinemaddicts probably will not. A morbidly cheerful little study of the rages induced in a café proprietor (Pat O'Brien) by his hysterical efforts to hire a satisfactory orchestra, it reaches its comic peak when he makes his pressagent (Margaret Lindsay) believe he is dying in order to persuade the bandleader hero (John Payne) to renew his contract. Best song: Love Is Where You Find...
...Crowley said FDIC was willing to raise the ante if the additional risk were "very small." Previous estimates showed that about 95% of U. S. deposits were covered by the present limit. But a new estimate is in order, now that bank deposits have risen to a near-record peak of $47,500,000,000. In any case, said Leo Crowley, he meant no reflection upon bank strength-in the first half of 1938 only 38 banks failed, of which 33 were insured...