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...knowing that the only way we can advance the interest of the maritime workers as a whole is by working with the licensed personnel [officers] that have shown a willingness to cooperate towards the ultimate consummation of the National Maritime Federation, it is hereby resolved that we will only sail with members of the M. E. B. A. [Maritime Engineers Beneficial Association] and the M. M. P. A. [Master, Mates and Pilots Association] and if the licensed personnel [officers] do not join the organization of their calling we the unlicensed personnel [crew] will sit down at once and continue until...
...more odd piece of canvas has been added to the New Deal's present makeshift policy. To meet the threat of a 16,000,000-bale cotton crop, which knocked the price from 15? to 8? per lb., the New Deal broke out a well-worn storm sail in the form of loans to cotton growers (TIME, Aug. 23). Hastily arranged just before Congress adjourned, the cotton-loan program was financed by Jesse Jones's RFC through the Commodity Credit Corp...
Last week it soon became apparent that a second jury sail would be broken out: that corn loans would be granted, though not at 60? per bu. Secretary Wallace discreetly observed that if figured in the same relation to so-called "parity prices" as cotton, the corn loans would be about 46? per bu. Only problem was to find the money-a problem complicated by President Roosevelt's announced determination to balance the budget (see p. 17). After a huddle with the President and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Mr. Wallace declared with engaging vagueness: "Money undoubtedly...
...hours later, after the fighting had guttered out, admitted that this has been International Shanghai's most terrible taste of war, although negligible in military results. Eight hundred Shanghai residents who had fled to Hong Kong during the past two months took ship there last week to sail back to Shanghai, figured they would rather risk Death and know the worst than remain stretched on the wrack of worrying about their Shanghai property...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, formally accepting the invitation for the U. S., announced that the sole U. S. delegate to the Brussels Conference would be Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis. Accompanied by two State Department advisers, a secretary and a press officer, Delegate Davis was to sail this week...