Word: ruralization
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...Administration's moment to make good on that view. With President Roosevelt's approval, and to Mr. Lasser's delight, Mr. Hopkins announced wage boosts for WPA workers in 13 Southern States. Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were boosted. In two States-Kentucky and Oklahoma- where Roosevelt Senators happen to be threatened in primary elections, the boosts were sharpest of all. No explanation was given except that "the President and Mr. Hopkins wanted...
...children, about 12,000 of them in Dearborn and the rest in dozens of other schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village, whose schools, opened in 1929, are a part of Dearborn's city system. Some others: nearly a score of rural schools in Michigan; trade schools at the River Rouge plant; three schools in Sudbury, Mass.; seven rural schools and the famed Martha Berry Schools in Georgia; an agricultural institute at Boreham House near Chelmsford, England; a school for rubber workers' children, Fordlandia, 600 miles up the Amazon in Brazil...
...Wages-&-Hours conferees finally pushed back their chairs with a bill ready to be presented to both houses, another joint committee agreed on a $3,753,000,000 version of the Lend-Spend Bill, including two items ($212,000,000 for farm benefits. $1,000,000 for Rural Electrification administrative expenses) which the House would have to vote on separately this week. Meanwhile on the floor...
Also into effect last week went Premier Daladier's pump-priming recovery program. On rural electrification, slum clearance, irrigation, new roads and port facilities, $304,000,000 will be spent. The production tax will be modified and free ports for transit trade have been established. Also authorized by decree were defense loans up to $5,500,000 for France's African colonies, to $11,000,000 for French Indo-China. Minister of Colonies Georges Mandel explained these loans will be used toward starting a "systematic Empire defense plan...
Last week on the air Editor Frank had his innings. He said his readers did not need Senator Minton to pasteurize their reading material for them. Taking a long breath he continued: "If, as in his attack on Rural Progress, an officer of Government can use the prestige of his position to malign, misinterpret, and deliberately undertake to cripple or destroy a magazine because not every line in it has agreed entirely with that officer, then every newspaper, every magazine, every business enterprise, every farm, every professional practice in the United States, whose operator is not a cringing...