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Presents information on several socio-political issues in the U.S. Failure to find the solution of housing problems after the World War II at a conference. Information on the renewal notice from the Curtis Publishing Co.; Objectives of the Fourth Filipino Inter-Community convention that took place in New City Hall; Existence of English-speaking, adaptable and intelligent workers in the small towns of Georgia; Concern shown by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association on the shortage of paper during wartime.

Focuses on the battle between press and the radio in the U.S. Description of efforts made by newspapers to limit the growing popularity of the radio; Information on the commercial broadcasting; Comment on selling programs produced by the radio; Demand made by papers for their property right in news during the annual meeting of the National Association of Newspaper Publishers; Establishment of news service by the Columbia Broadcasting System; Comment on operations of the Press-Radio Bureau.

Presents an informal discussion between Richard Davidge, founder of discussion-club the Seven Lamps, and other members of the club, about Davidge's paper "Intelligence in Our Time." Comments of Davidge on the general state of intelligence; Difference between intellect and intelligence; Consequences of the tradition of passivity; Statement that intelligence is at the mercy of social tastes; Intelligence levels of children.

Discusses the support of the Newspaper Publishers Council to the leadership of San Francisco Mayor Angelo J. Rossi according the Earl Brurke in California. Effort of the organization to mobilized their papers to prevent martial law; Imposition of heavy fines to the council members caught reading its publications; Enforcement of the right of collective bargaining in the area.

Highlights the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in the U.S. Total number of members of the Eastern Division; Duration of the meeting; Discussion of papers on various philosophical subjects at the morning sessions; Description of the discussions; Devotion of the afternoon session to the memory of professor James E. Creighton; Abhorrence of professor Creighton to cheap originality; Significance of the passing of Creighton to the association.

Analyzes the prospects of Father Charles E. Coughlin in the political arena in the U.S. Information on a convention of the National Union for Social Justice (NUSJ) to be organized by Coughlin in Cleveland; Information on the chief activities and membership of NUSJ which was founded by Coughlin; Launch of the weekly paper Social Justice, by Coughlin; Impact of currency inflation on Coughlin movement; Relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy and Coughlin's movement; Strategy of Coughlin to attack both the Republican and Democratic Parties and exploit to the full the developing sentiment for independent political action.

Focuses on social conditions of labor force in the U.S. Corrupt practices used by the officials of various trade unions; Attitude of various politicians towards labor unions; Features of the Landrum-Griffin bill, related to labor unions, passed by Illinois Senator Paul Douglas.

Focuses on author's paper on American writers, which he presented before that Connecticut Writers' conference. View that if there is anything obvious it is that the American writers today are redramatizing the American tradition on all sides; Promotion of the study of science by President John Quincy Adams; Examples of books on the patriotism of the American Revolution; View that in order to have the collectivism, writers have to change the minds of people, and this is bound to be a long, slow process; Basis of the League of American Writers; Need for the unification of writers and artists; View that the League is the heir of the Old Progressive movement that won so many writers in years gone by; Example of the Communist writers; Appeal to writers to wake Americans.

Presents information on an education program started by a schoolteacher and its message for war reconstruction. Efforts of the teacher to meet industrialists and politicians to tell about his school; Efforts of the teacher to find industrial magnates who would take up the methods of Oundle in productive organization; Objectives of the paper being practical working terms and organization of schools which shall be based on a close association with the needs and labors of the community life; Path to democratization, in place of aristocracy; Representation of maximum languages in the school; Involvement of large number of boys in research; Demand of creative education and that school be brought into harmony with the community life; Role of technical and vocational training; Study of new outlook all other departments of knowledge; Need for study of social problems; Approach to industrial and economic problems under national agreements.

Reports on the rise of an organization, officially named the American Fascisti Association and Order of Black Shirts that overshadowed the political campaign in the state of Georgia. Organizational goals, including driving African-Americans out of jobs and combating Communism in Georgia; Congestion in the office of the organization caused by job seekers that forced the organization to move its office to North Broad Street in Atlanta; Number of members in the organization; Process through which individuals need to undergo to gain membership in the organization; Release of a weekly newspaper by the organization which advertises job vacancies for white men; Failure of the organization to organize a chapter in Macon, Georgia.

Focuses on an article by Maude Radford Warren on Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) of France. Importance of 'Y' to French soldiers; Discussion of peace and war in France; Recognition given to YMCA by French people; Analysis of the attitude of thirty-two men who are members of YMCA.

Highlights the holiday meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Washington. Total number of papers read at the meeting; Exhibition of new facts at the event; Aspects of the process of understanding; Views of professor W. F. G. Swann about the revolutionary aspects of Albert Einstein's gravitational theory; Opinion of President Calvin Coolidge about the gathering; Primary value of a research.

Focuses on the topics discussed at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society. Total number of papers presented at the meeting; Interest of the participants in social psychology; Tendency towards the refinement of research methods; Advances in American sociology; Personality of the younger generation of sociologists; Topic of the sermon delivered by the president of the society; Goal of the sociologists.

Focuses on the Operation Crossroads for the testing of nuclear weapons beneath the Bikini Lagoon of the U.S. Destruction caused to the target fleets of the U.S. Navy by the atomic bomb; Comparison of the naval and atomic power of the U.S. in order to get more appropriations and funding; Possible damage to life and property which can be caused by an atomic warfare; Comments of the Federation of American Scientists on the ability of an atomic bomb to sink one ship of the fighting navy; Plans of the U.S. Navy to redesign ship structures.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Predictions of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Wilbur on the alarming horrors of aerial warfare with the use of poison gas bombs in future wars; Criticism on the statements of Wilbur as a false sense of security though entirely practicable according to an aviation expert; Assertion of the author that any restrictions forbidding the use of poison gas bombs will be violated just as other rules of war were violated under the spur of necessity; Development and maintenance of the nitrate production facilities in Muscle Shoals; Passage of the Underwood bill to turn Muscle Shoals over to private exploration; Opposition of "New York World" reporter Henry Pringle to the editors of the paper for opposing the federal Child Labor Amendment; Conviction of former Veterans' Bureau head Charles R. Forbes of conspiring to defraud the government in the matter of contracts for soldiers' hospitals; Investigation of the question of political prisoners throughout the world by the New York Division of the Labor Defense Council; Terms and conditions of the new Copyright bill pending in the Congress; Progress of the battle for collective bargaining agreement on the Pennsylvania Railroad; Appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock as head of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Plan of the Phi Beta Kappa society to build a memorial building and John Marshall statue from their million dollar memorial fund.

Focuses on the strike held by railroad workers in Jersey City, New Jersey. Demand of the trainmen for higher wages and better living conditions; Dissatisfaction expressed with union leaders for not having been firmer in making demands of the government; Reaction of the Brotherhood chiefs toward the walkout; Suspicion about the influence of the Industrial Workers of the World on the strike; Formation of the new organization, United Railway Workers of America by the strikers; Claim of the railwaymen that the strike is not a revolution but a walkout for redress of ancient grievances.

Provides information on the East Central Citizens Organization, a project of the First English Lutheran Church aimed at creating a community government for African-Americans in Columbus, Ohio. Description of the social condition in Columbus prior to the project; Services offered under the program; Challenges facing the project; Benefits of the project to the community.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Information on appointment of a committee by the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches to make a report on a possible Harmony Program which urges the outlawry of war; Comments on the article "The Great Jeffersonian Joke" published in the June 9 issue; Information on editorial writers; Discussion on an international conference to be called to determine the advisability of revising the calendar.

Presents news briefs, related to socio-political developments of several nations. Effect of the drought on economic conditions of the U.S.; Estimation of the damage by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration; Comments of Japanese Premier Keisuke Okada on the question of naval armament; Remarks of British admiral Earl Beatty that Great Britain should restore race in naval armament and repudiate to the London Treaty; Statement of German dictator Adolf Hitler that Germany will not attack Austria; Pamphlet issued by Harry Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce of Canada, describing the development of an unholy alliance between big business and government for the purpose of exploiting workers, consumers and farmers; Defeat of Conservatists in recent provincial elections; Demand of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, an amalgamation of farmer, labor and socialist groups, for the socialization of the banks, public utilities and all the leading industries in Canada; Purpose of dismissal of John Donovan, head of the U.S. National Recovery Administration's Employees' Union; List of social actions which will be performed by New York State Economic Council's board of directors; Editorial published in the newspaper "The News" on radicalism and violence.

Focuses on the issues discussed at the World Conference on literature in Europe. Pre-war literary mind symbolized by the character invented by English novelist H. G. Wells; Speech delivered by English novelist Aldous Huxley; Establishment of the fact that Europe is the world's intellectual leader; Complaint of French novelist Georges Duhamel that the European unity is a purely intellectual concept; Discussion about the creation of a permanent Society of European Studies; Selection of Society chairman Paul Valéry to preside the discussions.

Focuses on recent San Jose lynching in California. Account of the movements of a masked man who was the leader of the mob; Occurrence to place reporters and photographers in key places; Mention of a series of agricultural strikes under the leadership of a "Red" trade union; Information that it is perhaps no accident that the biggest strike and the worst passions were aroused right around San Jose; Warning to sensation-loving reporters not to create scare stories costing the city hundreds of dollars.

Focuses on hearings of the La Follette Civil Liberty Committee in California. Statement made by Phil Bancoft, Associated Farmers Leader and Republican senatorial nominee that U.S. legislator Robert Marion La Follette is giving aid and comfort to the Communists; Information on the annual convention of the Associated Farmers at Stockton; Presentation of a paper by Paul Taylor of the University of California on the entire problem of farm labor; Discussion of the economic background of the problem of migratory farm labor.

Offers observations regarding a meeting with the members of the Association of Oak Ridge scientists, the makers of first ever atomic bomb of modern era. Personality traits of the members; Opinion of the scientists on the ethics associated with the use of the bomb as an offensive against Japan; Account of the making and the testing of the bomb; Personal narrative of the scientists on the life they lived during the time they were making the bomb; Criticism of the statement by the scientists that the "know-how" for the creation of the bomb would strictly remain in the possession of the U.S.

Profiles the Modern Language Association, an 89-year-old society of college and university teachers of English and foreign languages in the U.S. Key goals and objectives; Key programs and projects in support of language, literature and the generation of employment opportunities; Membership information.

Comments on key controversies pertaining the blacklisting of colleges and college professors in the U.S. citing issues on discrimination and the involvement of the American Association of University Professors. Controversies over the termination of three professors of high standing without hearing and without formal charges; Dismissal of a University of Illinois professor who expressed his views on premarital sexual intercourse through a college paper; Existing laws on education and schools.

Presents texts and quotes from articles published in different journals. Comment by R.I.C. Prout, vice-president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs that if women seem to be confused today, it's because they have started thinking; Inquiry by a widow on whether her recently married son, John Doe Jr., should continue using junior in his name; Amazement by Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motors Co., regarding the preference shown by Europeans for politician Adlai E. Stevenson.

Focuses on the first constitutional convention of the Congress for Industrial Organizations (CIO) held in Pittsburgh. Job of the convention to adopt a constitution to solidify the CIO into a permanent, formal organization; Information on the composition of the national executive board of CIO; Agitation of U.S. labor leader William Green upon membership figure of CIO, contained in labor leader John Lewis' first-day report to the convention; Withdrawal of the president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, David Dubinsky and members on the eve of convention.

Presents an account of the socio-political situation in the United States. Reference to the victory of the labor leader, John L. Lewis in steel industry; Reference to the future plan of Works Progress Administration (WPA); Abandonment of the current WPA work program and adoption, instead, of a straight public-works plan; Information regarding the recruitment of workers based on their skill and not according to their need; Information regarding the relief expenditure by the U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the year 1938; View that two billions spent on public works of the kind envisaged by the National Resources Committee would give direct employment to 1,500,000 workers; Argument that the public-works program makes no provision for the deserving but bumble-fingered worker.

Comments on the meeting of the scholars in the U.S. Gathering of the social science groups in Chicago; Publication of the minutes of the events by the societies; Importance of knowing how the truth transpires; Announcement at the meeting of the British Royal Astronomical Society about the prediction of the German mathematician, Albert Einstein; Experimental checks on the Einstein theory; Human aspects of the learned society.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing the article "A Red Man's Burden," by Elizabeth Shephley Sergeant, in the section "A Communication," in the December 26 issue. Goal of the Eastern Association on Indian Affairs to help the Pueblo Indians; Misleading and inaccurate statements in the article, regarding settlers of one kind or another have obtained some sort of claim to considerable portions of these Indian lands guaranteed under treaty and by act of the U.S. Congress to their Pueblo wards; Inaccurate information in the article that Edith Manville Dabe, director of Indian Department National Board, of the Young Women's Christian Associations, sent a memorial to every Congressman asking the complete suppression of Pueblo dances by the government, on grounds of immorality; "Justification of Sergeant that the Eastern Association and the New Mexico Association on Indian Affairs both now apparently repudiate the guardian-ward theory accepted last year by all the Indian Associations engaged in Pueblo defense as central and essential to the maintenance of the rights of the Indians, against encroachment on their land.

Focuses on an annual meeting of a scientific society in the U.S. Purpose of the scientific gathering was to permit scientists to exchange ideas and experiences; Importance of the organization of such meetings; Notion that science is a tentative hypothesis, not an inspired and irrevocable revelation; Statement that discussion in the meeting is a means whereby ideas are rendered creative.

Focuses on the discussion of some peace by U.S. Governor Thomas E. Dewey in his speech given before the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. Suggestion of Dewey for organizing a structure of peace backed by adequate force to prevent future wars, in cooperation with other nations; Analysis of the failure of World Peace I and of dangers to peace by Dewey; Differences in status of Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China in terms of peace, suggested by Dewey.

Several letters to the editor are presented including one that reported about the successful Mexican election, another concerns the changes in the attitude of the journal on various U.S. political issues and "Fighting Words," in which the article's author published his own letter of resignation from the League of American Writers.

Presents excerpts and quotes from articles published in various periodicals. Statement of industrialist Richard S. Reynolds that poets, song writers and dreamers for the past ten years have given their genius to the automobile, the movies, the radio and the airplane; Criticism of the "Child Labor Amendment," made by the U.S. Congress; Removal of critical comments and signs on Jews, from all public places in Berlin, Germany; Domination of the American Student Union by communistic organizations, Young Men's Christian Association groups, and similar undesirable elements; Comments of person who had seen pickets parading in front of the places in New York; Statement that the American public should be kept away from communist literature, as published in the book "Fascism. and Social Revolution."

Reports on the author's participation in a congress of writers in New York City. View that the American Writers' Congress was radical in complexion and represented chiefly the younger generation of novelists, poets, dramatists and critics; Theme of the convention; Report that the American Writers' Congress, and the discussions preceding it, brought forth two organizations--the Book Union and the League of American Writers that promise to be permanent; Information on the International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture, which will open in Paris, France on June 3, 1935; List of writers asked to attend the Paris conference.

Assesses the role of the Associated Press (A.P.) in reporting the story of oil. Contention that there was a period of twenty-two months between the time the leases were signed and the ultimate crash, when the press lay back on its oars; Description about the coverage story on oil contracts by A.P.; Excerpt of AP's night wire from Washington, on December 14th, regarding fuel supply for the Pacific Fleet; Opinion that the rest of the A. P. wire, as read into the Walsh committee investigations goes on in the same spirit for some eight hundred words.

Presents a letter to the editor related to the League for Independent Political Action.

Focuses on the split in the automobile workers' union of the United Auto Workers (UAW), originating primarily from different personalities and office politics. Composition of the UAW rank and file class; Claim of the UAW's leftist leaders that the possible reason behind the split is the position occupied by the Communists in President Homer Martin's confidence; Charges imposed by Martin on officials of Unity locals.

Presents information on several liberty leagues. Statement that the organization Crusaders was originally formed to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; Information on the membership of the organization; Discussion on the Farmers Independence Council which attacked the New Deal's agricultural program; Efforts of Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia to win the Democratic presidential nomination from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Presents news briefs, related to socio-political developments of several nations. Prohibition of sanctions against Italy, until League Council meets on January 20; Declaration of Germany that there would be no air pact between Germany and Great Britain until Germany's lost colonies were restored and the responsibility-for-the-war clause eliminated from the Versailles Treaty; Demonstration of high-school and college students denouncing Japanese aggression and calling upon the central government for active resistance continued throughout China; Significance of the January first, for several political decisions in the U.S.; Plans of the organization National Peace Conference to continue the present embargo on actual arms and munitions to all belligerents; Comments made by journalist William Randolph Hearst, on the link of communists with kidnapping; Resignation of James G. McDonald as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany; Method used by France to dissolve armed fascist leagues within the framework of democracy; Amendments for :he confiscation of collective as well as individual armaments in France; Efforts of District Central Labor Union of Columbia to fight against reenactment of the teachers' oath law; Employment status of women graduates from the Purdue University.

Focuses on the incorporation of the social movement Utopian Society in California. Membership of the society; Process of becoming a Utopian; Background information of the organization.

Focuses on the industrial war in Chicago, Illinois. Disclosures of the Lockwood Committee and resultant prosecutions and prison sentences for corrupt labor officials and material dealers; Comments on miscarriages of trials of indictments secured by the Dailey Commission against labor leaders; Formation of Committee to Enforce the Landis Award created by the Association of Commerce; Announcement made by contractors of the uniform wage of mechanics; Negotiation of wage rates between the Building Trades Council and the two Contractors' Association; Appointment of a committee by the Association of Commerce to enforce the Landis Award; Exploitation of several labors of building trades by their union officials in Chicago.

Examines the political aspects of the grain trade in Canada. Establishment of the grain-growers organizations; Appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate grain marketing; Complaints against grain elevator companies; Provisions under the Canada Grain act.

Focuses on a section of American citizens who have formed a coalition to oppose consumer subsidies given by the U.S. government to control inflation. Information regarding the groups forming the coalition with emphasis on the U.S. National Association of Manufacturers, which finds it convenient to stay in the background and allow reactionary farm leaders to front for the programs it favors; Information regarding the top layers of inflation strategists with special emphasis on the American Farm Bureau Federation and its president Ed O'Neal; Identification of Charlie Holman, secretary of the Milk Producers' Federation as an opponent of the price control; Influence of Joe Montague of Amarillo, Texas, general counsel for the Texas and South-Western Cattle Raisers' Association in the U.S. House Agricultural Committee.

Presents an update of events in the U.S. and Europe with emphasis on war related events. Analysis of the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court towards the sustenance of the American Automobile Association and William Strecker need not be deported for membership in the Communist Party; Opinion of the attitude of the Soviet Union towards restriction of the alliance of German dictator Adolf Hitler; Mention of deployment of troops of the Axis powers and France and England in various parts of Europe and Africa; Readiness of the U.S. in dealing with dumping of foreign securities in the stock market as part of their preparations for possible war in Europe; Commendation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's policies by the Pope Pius XII.

Investigates the plans made by political organization Tammany to gain political prowess in New York City. Events in the nineteen twenties and thirties that could have led to the dissolution of the organization; Analysis of the political scene in the City with emphasis on influence of Tammany on the city; Account of activities of the political organization in recent past as steps towards political power; Awakening of women Democrats to gain votes; Positioning of the old fashioned Tammanyites in order to capture public offices.

Analyses reasons why the organization American Legion is not proving to be an example of democracy in action that it is supposed to be. Instances that highlight why the Legion, according to the article author, should be one of the most democratic institutions in the U.S.; Information on the structure of the Legion; Problems faced due to the vast power accorded to the National Executive Committee.

Focuses on the Farmers' Union Progressive Alliance, founded by the Farmers' Union at a two-day conference in Jamestown, North Dakota on June 7. Report that the Alliance will support progressive men and issues, irrespective of party; Information on the history of the progressive movement in North Dakota and the recent developments in the state; View that the farmers are losing faith in the leadership of the political parties.

Focuses on the dangers and miseries of so-called labor monopoly in the U.S., with citing various developments after the formal organization of Mississippi pilots in recent past. Details of the formation of pilots' union, based on Mark Twain's book, "Life on the Mississippi"; Increase in wages of pilots; Establishment of the Pilots' Benevolent Association having a special charter from the legislature; Details of wage structure for pilots and for their families, after their death and/or retirement; Information about new rules and criteria that are to be fulfilled before getting membership in the Association; Changes in provisions for widows and orphans in the Association's rule book; Provision for providing assistance for pilots' funerals by the Association.

Offers a look at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) program initiated by Robert R. Wason, the association's president, in favor of the citizens of the U.S. Discussion on the price control policy of the NAM; Claim that the NAM is composed of 15,000 producing companies, which produce 85 percent of all manufactured goods in the U.S.; Survey on opinions of businessmen regarding extension of the price control policy; Link between the NAM and the American Meat Institute and the National Association of Real Estate Boards.