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...Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming debate was soon drowned out by a poll-priming wrangle...
WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
...press conference question about his current $5,000,000,000 pump-priming campaign, the President replied with a definition of the aims of his antimonopoly message. To another, as to what he thought of the brawling primary campaign that was drawing to a close in Pennsylvania, he replied by advising his caller to read Dante's Inferno...
Plenty of people like Senator Byrd. House Minority Leader Snell and a whole slew of ladies from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who descended on Washington last week are convinced that any further so-called pump-priming will be money down the drain. But that Government spending from 1933 helped bring the U. S. at least a temporary recovery few qualified observers deny. Main objection to resumption of spending has been that the Recovery apparently lasts only so long as the spending and the Government cannot spend forever. To a press conference last week. Franklin Roosevelt gave his rebuttal...
...three banquets, the theme was picked up by Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, who last fortnight was one of 16 business leaders pledging co-operation with Mr. Roosevelt. Taking occasion to attribute the President's theory of economic crises to Karl Marx and asserting that pump-priming will prove futile, the crop-haired chairman of the biggest U. S. commercial bank proclaimed: "Reforms which, coming one by one. would be sound and helpful, can generate chaos if they come so quickly that men cannot adjust themselves to all of them simultaneously. I think that nothing...