Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...applied himself and his staff to the relocation of labor, the rehabilitation of ghost towns, vocational training, a youth program. At the C. I. 0. convention he vowed that by next year the U. S. will have licked unemployment. To Labor, angry at seeing defense contracts go to industries which have allegedly violated the Wagner Act, he pleaded for patience: "My God! . . . Those things have gone on for years. . . . Give us a chance...
...policy of Yugoslavia was last week still opposition to Italy, to whom the Adriatic lands would fall in the New Order in Europe. It was also possible that the German program might involve a march through Yugoslavia into northern Greece-the sort of march about which Yugoslavia would not be consulted. There was no way of reconciling these things with Yugoslav membership in the Axis...
Died. Billy Jones, 51, tenor half of the Happiness Boys, first nationally known radio team, partner from 1920 until 1939 of the late Baritone Ernie Hare; of a heart attack, as he strolled along Broadway on his way to rehearse his Sunday program over station WMCA...
...concern of every democracy is the maintenance of a free market" brought 58.7% agreement (27.7% in toto, 31% in part), with utility and railmen again lagging behind. Asked to make a choice between General Johnson's defunct NRA pro-price-fixing policy, and the Arnold anti-price-fixing program, the Forum gave Arnold the edge: NRA, 22%; Arnold, 33%; "depends," 45%. More striking were its views on particular prices. A clear majority (from 63.1% to 81.8%) reasoned that lasting recovery is impossible until the building industry acts to encourage new construction, until railroads act to stimulate greater movement...
Compositions by Matthias Monn, Rosenmuller, Schiassi, Tunder, and Vincent Lubeck are on the program...