POLITICS
Politics Notes from Here and There About Solons and Citizens [By 'OBSERVER'] MRS. F.D.R. ON 3RD TERM In reply to a third term question popped at her during a press conference. Mrs. Eleanor...
...Ernest K. Limllcy, who wrote a biography of President Roosevelt, received a sharp rebuke from the president last .week when Mr...
...who has been designated by the Dies committee to investigate an alleged tieup between Communists in Mexico and in Texas, disavowed any connection with the arrests...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Appointment of Robert E. Lynch, former counsel for T. R. Middlcton, former high sherifT of Harlan county, as counsel for the Dies committee, was announced by Rep...
...And here is what has happened to the investors: During the last ten years 4.500,000 men and women risked about $7,000,000,000 and up to date have lost more than $3,000,000,000...
...If that be true, it confirms what students of American politics have long suspected—that our corrupt practices acts are of little value...
...Following an investigation of "complaints" that the government census will invade the privacy of citizens, the American Civil Lib-ertes union took the view that "no issue of civil lberties is Involved in the questionnaire...
...Said Sen...
...Their cause is as wholly British as any cause could be...
...Eleanor Roosevelt laughingly replied that "at best there must be some uncertainty" about whether the Roosevelts will be in Washington next year...
...Key Pittman of Nevada, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, has been a bitter critic of Nazism and Communism...
...Progressives in Washington were starled last week by a press dispatch reporting that seven labor leaders involved in a strike at F,l Paso, Tex., had been arrested without warrants and were being held in jail awaiting the arrival of an investigator for the Dies committee supposed to be inquiring into 'unAmerican can activities.' The sheriff who made the arrests said he acted on instructions of the Dies committee...
...MICE AT STANLEY *" Oliver Stanley, British war secretary, recently said that neutrals had no right to criticize the British for the way the war was being conducted...
...La Follette: "I have not seen any criticism of the kind he mentions...
...By way of explanation, the senator says these concerns have assets valued at, $4,000.-000.000 and control properties worth $30,000,000,000...
...WINS TACOMA RACE Harry Cain was elected mayor of the city of Tacoma, Wash., last week in an upset victory, following a particularly bitter campaign...
...Nye: "It is utterly silly for a Briton to talk about Britain's fighting for us or for any cause that is ours...
...CROMWELL CRITIC'S A Toronto speech by James H. R. Cromwell, U. S. minister to Canada, denouncing the Nazis and criticizing isolationists in the United States, has resulted in demands by members of congress that Cromwell resign...
...The National Power Policy committee and heads of major utilities are studying a plan for the linking up of private utility systems by a vast transmission system...
...Sen...
...The law prescribes that federal contracts of $10,-O00 or more shall be awarded only to manufacturers who pay prevailing wages and maintain a 40-hour week...
...Martin Dies (D„ Tex...
...All teachers colleges in Minnesota have had their budgets reduced 10 per cent as a resull of the current economy drive...
...The letter is the result of an exchange between the officials regarding testimony before the committee that the Labor board used federal funds to organize a campaign against amendment of the labor act and reduction of the board's appropriations...
...universally recognized...
...Now is the time for neutral countries to hammer constantly on the thought of peace...
...Political observers thereupon engaged In some more guessing—that, Farley's candidacy was a forecast that President Roosevelt will seek no third term, that F. D. R. and Farley will be contenders for the nomination, breaking up an old alliance, etc., etc . . . The granting of a teaching position to Bertrand Russell, English philosopher, on the staff of the City college of New York has raised a stir...
...Congress should clarify the law prohibiting government agencies from using their funds for lobbying activities with congress before asking the justice department to prosecute under this law...
...Said he: "Frankly and without reservation, my name will be presented to the Democratic convention in Chicago and that's that...
...If there Is no armistice before summer commences, the chances are the war will continue to the finish," said the senator...
...Speaking last week at...
...Hull after asking Cromwell for an official version of the speech, criticized Cromwell for violating state dept...
...The House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill last week which raises the number of special police guarding the White House from 43 to 73...
...Attorney General Jackson has written Representative Smith of Virginia, chairman of the house committee investigating the National Labor Relations board...
...shall not I," i liolvrd.So lar as I nm aware, they are not presuming to tell the nations that are involved what their strategy shall be, except where their economic strategy impinges on our normal trade rights...
...The amendments w-ould make the regulations applicable to contracts of $4,000 upwards...
...Keller points out, "increasing use of new chemicals, new solvents, new processes, are not, only bringing now diseases, but, are producing -^i alarming increase In the known hcalui disabilities...
...Farley is a Catholic...
...Postmaster General James A. Farley flatly announced that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president...
...has been absorbed by reducing maintenance expenditures and reducing necessary new purchases...
...instructions...
...to cut its rates an average of 36 per cent...
...They have so many loopholes that the Pews, the Grundys, and the Annenbergs may drive a coach and four through them...
...But he believes that a 30 day armistice might help toward arranging a lasting peace...
...Word came from Atlanta last week that...
...chairman ot tli" committee...
...The bill repealing the foreign silver purchase buying program has been approved by the senate banking committee...
...Congressman John J. Dempsey (Dem., N. Mex...
...When the Hatch bill was being considered in the senate, a number of members made some enlightening statements on campaign expenditures...
...Vice-President Garner is reported to be seeking a political alliance with Postmaster General .lames A. Farley, says a D. C. dispatch, which might result in Farley as a vice-presidential candidate...
...In addition, the president praised a recent speech by Farley in which the postmaster general said: "We must never permit the ideals of this republic to sink to a point where every American father and mother, regardless of race, color or creed, cannot look proudly into the cradle of their new born babe and see a future president of the United States...
...Last week members of the U. s. senate fired hack at...
...During the recent hearings on the amendments to make the Walsh-Healey act more effective against wage chiseling employers, the admirals were registering their opposition...
...DEWEY ON PUBLIC POWER Tom Dewey, Republican candidate for president, is apparently against public ownership of utilities...
...of Kansas City which show'ed the power company grossly overcharging the public...
...B. Frank Whelchel, Georgia Democrat, had been indicted by a U. S. grand jury on eight counts, which charged the sale of postal appointments...
...The most startling was the claim by Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania, that the late Charles M. Schwab told him he had on one occasion raised $8,-000.000 for the late Senator Boies Penrose, and that the money had been expended without any public accounting...
...Said Sen...
...Roosevelt denied a' statement in the biography that he had said Postmaster General Farley unavailable as a presidential candidate because of his religion...
...A committee investigator, it was disclosed, has been sent to Texas, but if he is responsible he exceeded his authority, Dempsey said...
...Removal of William Dudley Pellcy, anti-semitic leader of the Silver Shirts, to North Carolina where he is wanted on a fugitive from justice charge was ordered in federal district court here...
...In most places the cut...
...Despite the great advances In medical science and hygiene, Mr...
...It based its findings on a survey by the Burns and McDonnell Engineering Co...
...Who gave the instructions is a mystery...
...Unfortunately, neither of the old parties seems disposed to enact effective legislation...
...Secy...
...The case was a part of the government's anti-trust drive...
...I think the attitude of most Americans Is that they nre happy our country is not Involved In the war and determined that It...
...This time he has introduced legislation to regulate investment companies and investment advisers...
...Critics are digging up statements made by Russell on Communism and morals...
...To refuse such an undertaking is to pronounce carelessly and selfishly the doom of civilization...
...Somebody ought to ask him if there would have been a Grand Coulee, a Bonneville, a Shasta, or a TVA if private ownership had been depended upon to provide cheap electricity for largo areas of the country...
...The Republican party is incapable of giving the nation anything but a reactionary government," Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, told a large crowd of enthusiastic Young Democrats at their annual banquet in Charleston, W, Va...
...Stanley, Intimating that Slanley's words were a smoke screen to divert attention from trade harriers raised against U. S. exports...
...BONNEVILLE DIRECTOR Charles E. Lamson, director of the District of Columbia, Employment center of the Federal Social Security board, has been appointed director of personnel for the Bonneville Power administration...
...Keller, Illinois, called attention to the fact that the life expectancy of an industrial worker is from 8 to 10 years less than the life expectancy of the population at large—something not...
...In Portland on his recent trip he said, "It is important that you get the Grand Coulee project under a Repub-lcan administration to insure the use of its power in free private enterprise...
...Building Trades Officials Named PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Fifty-three defendants, including 16 local AFL officials, were enjoined in federal district court from restricting prices for plastering and lathing and from preventing installation of prefabricated building materials...
...Many of the investment trusts were so rotten they have totally disappeared...
...Senator Wagner has launched another reform...
...This practice will not be ended until political contributions of all kinds are subjected to the mas' pitiless publicity and attempts to flout or evade the law are treated as criminal offenses of the most serious character...
...In introducing a bill for federal aid to states to control occupational diseases, Rep...
...Secretary of the Navy Edison at West Orange last week declared himself a candidate for governor of New Jersey and was promptly assured by Mayor Hague of Jersey City of 100 per cent support of the state Democratic organization...
...Springfield, Mass...
...Possibly if an armistice could be induced for 30 days and fear could be allayed for that period, the neutral powers could offer their services...
...Further legal proceedings were instituted by Pelley to prevent his immediate departure...
...The Tampa, Florida, utility board has ordered the Tampa Electric Co...
...WORLD WAR PENSIONS A bill to grant pensions to dependents of World war veterans who die from non-military service has been approved by a house of representatives committee...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
