GOV. ROOSEVELT NOMINATED ON WET PLATFORM
GOV. ROOSEVELT NOMINATED ON WET PLATFORM Unanimously Chosen in Democratic Convention For Governor of New York I Special to The Progressive) SYRACUSE, N. Y.—More than 1.000 delegates arose with one...
...ROOSEVELT NOMINATED ON WET PLATFORM Unanimously Chosen in Democratic Convention For Governor of New York I Special to The Progressive) SYRACUSE, N. Y.—More than 1.000 delegates arose with one accord and unanimously re-nominated Gov...
...With best wishes for their continued success.—B...
...In his nominating speech, the former governor declared that all good Democrats would stand behind Gov...
...l—Thoa...
...Smith's address...
...It must be a great joy...
...The convention, also adopted its state platform which included as its most important planks the demand for the repeal of the 18th amendment, the recognition of the governmental and judicial scandals emanating from New York City, and the bitter condemnation of the national Republican administration as responsible for the present business and industrial depression...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt as t~e democratic candidate for governor of New York at the state convention here Tuesday...
...Furthermore, our men find it much more convenient, due to the fact, that they do not have to come in on a Saturday and can have two days instead of one day of rest, and they enjoy this two day .rest, especially during the summer months...
...SANTA ANA, , Calif., Sept...
...R. R. Heywood Co., Inc., By N. C. Engel...
...Yours very truly...
...The anti-prohibition plank adopted by the New York convention is considered an Important forecast that the Democratic party will make Its national light on the wet-dry Issue In the presidential campaign In 1932...
...More power to the people of Wisconsin, and may they stand for the Lsi Follette boys...
...Roosevelt or his associates in the state administration...
...22) — I wish you to know how the wonderful achievement of Phil La Follette's election has Inspired ine...
...Roosevelt h.vs been frequently mentioned as a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...According to Mr...
...A, Smith, Five Day Week Cuts Production Costs, Claimed Large Lithographing Concern Enthusiastic About Benefits of Short Week System (The following is another of a series of letters being published In The Progressive which have been received from big manufacturing and industrial concerns u^ing the five-day-week system in their plants...
...Before we worked on the five day basis, we used to work on the five and one-half day basis and found that on a Saturday morning we could not get cur production costs down, due to the fact thst our men would come in at 8 o'clock and work until 12...
...a value inflated by about $20,000,000...
...best wishes...
...King recommends that the Federal power commission exercise its authority in the accounts of the Minnesota utility...
...20,000,000 in Water Found in Utility" Assets" Wm...
...We are highly in favor of the five-day-week and have found this plan to work out satisfactorily all around...
...Roosevelt, addressing the convention following his nomination, was greeted with salvos of applause when he asked the question of Charles H. Tuttle...
...The vote was tak?n by acclamation, and one of the greatest ovations in the history of state conventions was given to Gov...
...To think that your wonderful people believed and saw in him what his brave old father fought his life out for is cer-luinlv a step in the right direction...
...Republican nominee for the governorship, "if you become governor and if a state prohibition enforcement, act is passed, will you sign it or not...
...Under the present arrangement, we work on a longer ' day basis—about three-quarters of an hour longer each day—and are thus able to plan our runs a trifle longer and are able to finish up a color...
...25) — If there is any state in the Union where people use their brains it is Wisconsin, where they elect candidates that represent them and don't put In the big Ixisses like (hey do in other states...
...more than $42,770.000 was unsupported as to detail and represented property purchased from its holding company, the American Power and Light, company...
...In his report, Mr...
...Roosevelt and to former governor A!.'re1 E. Smith, who d?Iheted rh» nom:n.v.lng speech...
...John W. Davis, Democratic nominee to the presidency in 1924, wns permanent chairman of the convention, and Senator Robert F. Wagner, temporary chairman, delivered the keynote, address preceding the adoption of the platform...
...Mazurka...
...1924...
...and lots of peo-I pie hv other states feel the- same w...
...for her' to have two such wonderful sons, as Young Bob and Phil, to carry on the gTeat work that they were reared in...
...Roosevelt in his earnest determination to remove from public ofTjce those guilty of corruption, and he declared that although "the Republican platform sneaks of corruption in the government of the cities of New York and Albany and stresses Improper and corrupt practices with respect to the judiciary," that "certainly that plank cannot be aimed against the Democratic party as a whole or against Gov...
...Part of that time would b? consumed in getting the presses ready etc., and then we would have to wash up...
...was his first important public utterance since his defeat as democratic candidate to the presidency in 1928 by Herbert Hoover...
...I wish we did...
...King's reports following an examination of the supposed $47,315,000 of assets of the company listed in a tabulation made in May...
...Let me extend to his mother my...
...USED THEIR BRAINS (CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept...
...When the Minnesota Power and Light company took over this property it did so at...
...V. King of Federal Power Commission Exposes Inflated Capitalization WASHINGTON, D. C. — Evidence that the Minnesota Power and Light company, huge Minnesota subsidiary of the Electric Bond and Share utility holding organization, is carrying on its operations with a $20,000,000 inflation in its capital structure upon which consumers are called upon to pay a return, has been received by the Federal power commission here in the form of a report from William V. King, chief accountant for the commission, who has been investigating the Minnesota utility...
...The following letter was received from the R. R. Heywood •company of New York City, large lithographing organization employing a large force of skilled workmen—EDITOR'S NOTE...
...Gentlemen: We wish to advise that it has been a good many years that we have been working on a five day plan, and we find this plan very satisfactory for our production and cost, purposes...
...says the report, or iri_ other words added that much to the real cost of the property and made investors pay that, additional sum for the planty Inasmuch as the state of Minnesota has no regulatory body for the control of electric, utilities, the Minnesota Power and Light company has been able to demand a return from consumers on its inflated capital, structure...
...It is too bad we Iwve-| n't some men like them right here in I Ohio...
Vol. 1 • October 1930 • No. 44
