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...grapefruit; half way between a public work and a relief work is a civil work. Up to now the Federal establishments, only recently scheduled for consolidation, have been increased to include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA an NRA, a CCC, a TVA, an HOLC, an RFC*-and now we have a CWA. It looks as though one of the absent-minded professors had played anagrams with the alphabet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously inventing a new game for the nation, a game which beats the crossword puzzle-the game of identifying new departments...
...exchange value of the dollar began to mount. At the same time commodity prices started to sag badly (in accord with Dr. Warren's theory), had to be propped up by large Government purchases of wheat. On Oct. 22 the President over the radio announced that the RFC would begin setting its own price for gold. A week later when that step had failed materially to reduce the exchange value of the dollar, gold purchases were extended to the world market. Mr. Morgenthau along with Jesse Jones, the complaisant RFC chairman, and the reluctant Mr. Acheson, began...
...Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper, son of the Secretary of Commerce, Oilman James A. Moffett of the NRA and roly-poly little Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans, onetime Fort Worth newspaperman, who organized the junket. At At lanta, Postmaster General Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones were picked up. Variously billed as "The Democratic Good-Will Tour of Texas," "The Garner-Farley Texas Trip" and (by capital wags) "The Farley Expedition to Rediscover Jack Garner," the voyagers spent the night at Jackson, Miss. Having paused at Meridian to dedicate a post office...
...Congress has given to the President to fight the recovery campaign?" As an aid to teachers in telling their pupils about them it presents "thumbnail sketches" of NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC. FCOT, FERA, TVA, RFC, FFCA, HOLC, with a map of Washington showing their locations. NRA. A code for teachers was submitted to NRA last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were...