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...weeks the Administration has been split on the wisdom of pressing ahead with the U. S. public works program. One group, led by Budget Director Douglas, argued thus: "Natural recovery has started. There is no sense in piling up a large and unnecessary debt for projects that aren't really needed. Inflation has so boosted costs that $3,300,000,000 will build much less than it would two months ago and hence a reduced effect from such spending. Most States & cities do not really relish the idea of going into debt for 70% of a project just...
...with a Montauk captain costs $50. but you can take three or four others along and split the price. Tackle is provided, consisting usually of a 16-oz. rod, a reel the size of a coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take...
...Juan, President Roosevelt's Governor General Robert Hayes Gore, father of nine, created a commotion by suggesting to Puerto Ricans that, as their New Deal, landed estates might be split up, rented to small farmers (see p. 14). ¶ To Havana, where U. S. Ambassador Welles was trying-despite continued dou-ble-crossing-to arbitrate bloody differences between Cuba's political ins and outs, the President sent President Gerardo Machado a pleasant but barb-pointed cable: "Restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." ¶ The President...
...Blood And The Soil and The Peasantry As The Living Spring Of The Nordic Race. With Herr Darré in the saddle last week Old Paul's Junker friends seemed doomed. Agriculture was only half of Dr. Hugenberg's Ministry. Economics, the other half. Chancellor Hitler split off last week and placed in charge of a steady-going German insurance tycoon, Dr. Kurt Schmitt. There was, however, a catch. Dr. Schmitt, a man of no political prestige, will have as his Undersecretary and mentor famed Gottfried Feder, the "Nazi Ideologist," inventor of the Party's distinction between...
...bring this about Fox will back-split its stock-one share of new for six shares of old. The holder of one new share will have the dubious privilege of buying five more new shares at $18.90 a share. Underwritten by Fox creditors the offering of new stock will probably be spurned by most holders. Chase will thus have to take up practically all the new stock, giving it control and in effect converting Fox debts into Fox stock...