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...Congressional hearings are seldom secret long. Duly published were reports that Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt foresaw war in Europe within the year, that Germany has 6,500 new planes, 3,000 usable old ones, and can build 1,200 a month. Explaining that French resistance to Mussolini held the chief threat of war, Mr. Kennedy was reported as saying that in order to appease Adolf Hitler the British would even allow him to put a base in Canada (which Franklin Roosevelt swears to defend). This Mr. Kennedy quickly denied. A story he did not deny was that much of his information...
Aside from war, the most obvious threat to continued industrial recovery seemed to lie in the possibility of overproduction such as brought on Depression II. Rising commodity prices would probably herald such an event and last week they were only slightly above the four-year low set last month...
...unpredictable Yardlings have so far the unimpressive record of one win and three losses. Chief offensive threat and high scorer is Dem Lioyd, who helped turn back Cambridge with three solo dashes...
...second Congressional problem faced the President hard upon the first: the major threat to his Administration which Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities seemed to be rapidly becoming. Mr. Dies put out last week a report which loudly attacked Secretary of Labor Perkins for "unbelievable laxity" in handling alien agitators, Secretary of the Interior Ickes for baiting the Committee, Secretary of Commerce Hopkins for harboring Communists in WPA. Mr. Dies demanded $150,000 to continue his investigation, and the President learned that many another Congressman's mail was filled with warnings that Mr. Dies...
This confronted the President with a formidable threat to his Cabinet. He had an answer to it at press conference last week. His answer was to announce with gusto that his new Attorney General, Frank Murphy-the man whom Mr. Dies last fall accused of being too soft on communistic sitdowners-would have Department of Justice agents investigate all charges of subversive activities made by Mr. Dies. Meanwhile, to keep from casting fuel on flames, Secretary Ickes was restrained from delivering an oratorical blast entitled "Loaded Dies...