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IssueVol. 004 Issue 048 (December 1 1940)
IssueVol. 004 Issue 049 (December 7 1940)
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Paid articleBankers Reach Out For Fatter Defense Gains
Bankers Reach Out For Fatter Defense Gains Evidence of a behind-the-scenes battle between the New Deal and *»« once-powerful and arrogant A-merican Bankers' Association pver defense loans was...
Paid articleProfiteering
Profiteering Gamblers Corner Supply Of Canned Goods Needed By Army Profiteering and speculating in canned foods required by the nation's rapidly expanding Army was disclosed this week when the War...
Paid article25 Corporations Benefit In GOP Tax Reductions
25 Corporations Benefit In GOP Tax Reductions Tax reductions totaling $171,418 have been granted 25 Wisconsin corporations by the Republican-controlled state board of tax appeals, it was disclosed...
Paid articleFDR Hits Sales Tax For Defense
FDR Hits Sales Tax For Defense Any proposals of a sales tax to finance new government expenditures for national defense will be opposed by President Roosevelt. Sales tax proposals have reportedly...
Paid articleDrive On Labor Launched By Tory Combine
Drive On Labor Launched By Tory Combine A powerful campaign to use the national defense program as a club with which to beat organized labor into surrendering major gains of the past decade...
Paid articleUniversity Refuses Anti-War Students Use Of Building
University Refuses Anti-War Students Use Of Building The University of Wisconsin refused this week to permit the use of a campus building for the Youth Committee Against War for the curious reason...
Paid articlePropagandists Busy As Congress Delays Action on Credit Ban
Propagandists Busy As Congress Delays Action on Credit Ban WHILE interventionist propagandists wheeled out their heaviest artillery to lay siege to the American public for repeal or drastic...
Paid articleFewer Curbs On Profiteering Than In '17-'18
Fewer Curbs On Profiteering Than In '17-'18 Defense Commission Is Doing A Good Job But The Frenzied Drive Toward Total Rearmament Is Honeycombed With Divided Responsibility, Flouting of Labor...
Paid articleAFL Reaffirms Advocacy Of 30-Hour Week
AFL Reaffirms Advocacy Of 30-Hour Week The American Federation of Labor "strongly" reaffirmed its support of the six-hour day and thei 30-hour week, at the closing session of its 60th annual...
Paid articleCourt Decides Against Fritz In Close Race
Court Decides Against Fritz In Close Race The gallant fight by Oliver Fritz, LaCrosse Progressive, for a seat in the Wisconsin assembly received a judicial setback last week when Circuit Judge E....
Paid articleStatue Unveiled In Memory Of Floyd B. Olson
Statue Unveiled In Memory Of Floyd B. Olson In ankle deep slush and mud, thousands of Minnesota citizens stood last week in Minneapolis at the unveiling of a statue in memory of the late Gov. Floyd...
Paid articleHeil To Censor State Blue Book Along Own Lines
Heil To Censor State Blue Book AlongOwnLines The truth hurts Wisconsin's Got. Heil so much that he's decided to censor it. He announced last week that he was so "sore" at the uses to which the...
Paid articleRoosevelt Veto Of Logan-Walter Measure Seen
Roosevelt Veto Of Logan-Walter Measure Seen Veto of the Logan-Walter hill by President Roosevelt loomed as a distinct possibility this week following the Senate's action in approving the measure by...
Paid articleUnfit
Unfit „ Survey Shows 15% Of Youth Rejected For Army Service Fifteen per cent of the 14,500 young men who responded to fhe first caM for one year's military training have been rejected because of...
Paid articleU. S. To Clamp Down On Food Price Rackets
U. S. To Clamp Down On Food Price Rackets RECENT evidence that "the food industries function badly for both consumers and farmers" prompted the department of justice this week to start a nationwide...
Paid articleUnion Leaguers Get Taste Of Peace Picketing
Union Leaguers Get Taste Of Peace Picketing NEW York's ultra exclusive Union League Glub had a picket line thrown around it last week when William Allen White, chairman of the Committee to Defend...
Paid articleFarmer Labor Relations
UPHOFF, WALTER H.
Farmer Labor Relations :By WALTER H. UPHOFF IN this week's column we mention some of the most interesting experiences and observations concerning farmer-labor relations Which resulted from our...
Paid articleThe Armaments of A Democracy . . .
LILIENTHAL, DAVID E.
The Armaments of A Democracy . . . The United States cannot build a great national spirit by "wearing a hair-shirt and sitting in the ashes of our shortcomings," argues David E. Lilienthal as he...
Paid articleKennedy Quits, Opposes War
Kennedy Quits, Opposes War Joseph P. Kennedy has resigned his position as United States ambassador to Great Britain but is retaining technical possession of the post until his successor is...
Paid articleNo Garters?
No Garters? Bone Has A Plan For Belted Earls and Bearded Dukes In a flippant mood one day, Sen. Homer T. Bone, Washington Democrat, remarked that he was organ- 1 izing a Society for the Promotion...
Paid articleGrand Jury Will Probe Election
Grand Jury Will Probe Election Officials of all national political parties were called this week before a federal grand jury in Washington in connection with an investigation of alleged violations...
Paid articleLandon Warns Further Help Will Mean War
Landon Warns Further Help Will Mean War MODIFICATION of the Neutra** ity Act to permit America* ships to enter the war zones w>){ result in a "case of Johnnie g«* your gun," Alfred M. Landon, Re*...
Paid articleHopson Deals Too Complicated For Witnesses
Hopson Deals Too Complicated For Witnesses Deals so complicated that witnesses had difficulty keeping together the threads of continuity as they discussed them in court were cited last week in the...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLES FORUM
. THE PEOPLES FORUM . . . Opposes Coalition Dear Sirs: I have just read the article in the last issue on the proposed coalition written by John H. Wilson and heartily agree with him, and I for...
Paid articleShall We War In Cold Blood?
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Shall We War In Cold Blood? By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD. IF WE GO INTO THIS war as so many are now urging us to do, we shall obviously do so for purely intellectual reasons. Of course there is a...
Paid articleState Taxes Burden Those Poorest Off
State Taxes Burden Those Poorest Off The increasing extent to which those with the least ability to pay taxes shoulder the tax burden of state governments was forcefully, disclosed by the Bureau of...
Paid articleBadger Co-op Week Feb. 17-21
Badcper Co-op Week Feb. 17-21 Third annual "Cooperative Week" will be celebrated Feb. 1721, inclusive, in Wisconsin, where there are more than 1,200 incorporated cooperatives. Special meetings...
Paid articleFarmers' Union Elects Patton, Opposes War
Farmers' Union Elects Patton, Opposes War James G. Patton, Denver, Colo., was elected president of the National Farmers' Union at its 3 6tli annual convention at Denver recently. Other officers...
Paid articleBab La Follette Wins National Labor Award
Bab La Follette Wins National Labor Award Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Jr., has been singled out to receive the Workers' Defense League's first annual award "for distinguished service in behalf of...
Paid articleIN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT
IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Farmers Double Co-op Buying In Six Years Cooperative purchasing by farmers has more than doubled in dollar value since 19 34, the volume increasing from $200,000,000...
Paid articleA ROOM OF OUR OWN
Follette, Isalul B. La
A ROOM OF OUR OWN By Isalul B. La Follette A LETTER FROM one of my sisters says, "Deo suggests that **-we only give Christmas presents to the children this year, and put the money we would...
Paid articleHere's How To Keep Your Wash Sparkling White
Here's How To Keep Your Wash Sparkling White Monday afternoon! What's more satisfying to a housewife than that moment she looks out the kitchen window at her clean white wash drying under the wind...
Paid articleCIO Auxiliaries Re-elect Miss Lewis
CIO Auxiliaries Re-elect Miss Lewis Kathryn Lewis, daughter of CIO's retiring president John L. Lewis, was re-elected chairman of the CIO women's auxiliaries following unanimous rejection of her...
Paid articleU. S. Health Service Lists Essentials For Healthful Home
U. S. Health Service Lists Essentials For Healthful Home Essentials for "comfort, decency, convenience and even joy" in the home have just been examined by the TJ. S. public health service. Ten...
Paid articleOur American Government
Our American Government Security For Human Beings PROGRESSIVES have fought for, and placed on the statute books, laws providing so far as finances would permit, security for those who are...
Paid articleMrs. Catt Asks 100-Year Fight To End War
Mrs. Catt Asks 100-Year Fight To End War UNLESS a method "is devised to change the course of events, the present war cannot possibly be the last one," Mrs. Carrie Chap-, man Catt, a veteran leader...
Paid articleWomen's Congress Stresses Work In Home Communities
Women's Congress Stresses Work In * Home Communities At its three-day session last week the 300 delegates to the Women's Centennial Congress attended round-table discussions and adopted a...
Paid articleThe PROGRESSIVE
The PROGRESSIVE With which is combined La Follette's Magazine, founded in 1909 by Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Published every Saturday by the Progressive Publishing Company. Robert M. La Follette,....
Paid articleThe Logan-Walter Bill Camouflage
GRAFTON, SAMUEL
The Logan-Walter Bill Camouflage :By SAMUEL GRAFTON (Noted Columnist for The New York Evening Post) nPHE BRIEFEST honeymoon after a presidential A election in the history of the republic ended,...
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