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Discusses the public works program of the United States. Goal to increase purchasing power in a capitalist economy; Delay of the completion of public contracts; Comparison of government schemes for the provision of grants.

Focuses on the role of the three detective agencies, the Pinkertons, the Corporations Auxiliary and the National Metal Trades Association in manipulating workers in favor of policies laid down by the employers in the U.S. Money spent on detective agencies by General Motors Corp. during 1934-36, exceeded 839,764 dollars; Paraphernalia employed by the Pinkertons in order to spy various significant union figures on the advice of General Motors; Testimony against Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, who cooperated with employers in the mass industries, Declaration of Robert LaFollette, head of a Senate subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor about the employment of spies to terrorize workers.

Assesses the plans the U.S. government to create suburban communities as of June 21, 1883. Experimentation with low-cost housing; Description of the communities; Eligibility for the government-built communities; List of other low-cost housing projects by the government.

Focuses on the power exhibited by Donald R. Richberg as chief advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Narration depicting Richberg's biographical details; Record maintained by Richberg of devoted service on behalf of the poor and weak; Contribution made by Richberg in implementing the New Deal; Tussle between Richberg and General Hugh S. Johnson who is an administrator of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) as Richberg joined the NRA; Repugnance shown by radicals and labor towards Richberg after the Automobile Code case.

Presents information on U.S. Deputy President Harry L. Hopkins. Discussion of the opinion of the Conservatives and Americans regarding the working of Hopkins; Statement that he can give the relief disbursements and number of families on relief in each of the forty-eight states; View that Hopkins is skilled in getting people to do things; Fact that the Communications Workers of America was set up with complete disregard for social work principles, which delighted Hopkins; Information on a new program regarding the time the production of commodities by the unemployed for their own use; Report that the one critical political decision that Hopkins has had to make as head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was that about relief for strikers.

Comments on the investigation of munition makers voted by the Senate in the U.S. Implication of the thumprints of munition makers on the budgets of the U.S. army and navy; Identification of the warship builders as the most influential group of munition makers; Appropriations for new naval building.

Focuses on ways of permanent recovery from depression without the revival of exports. Expansion of American exports to Asia; Lack of meagrerest necessities of modern life in China, India and Soviet Union; Attempts made by the U.S. government to increase trade in Asia; Social, political and racial problems faced by Asians due to increase in trade to Asia; Agreement of financial authorities that the next three or four years in western Europe will be a period of abnormally cheap money.

Focuses on Louis A. Johnson, the Assistant Secretary of War in the U.S. Criticism of Johnson's views on New Deal; Information on the making of Johnson from the chairman of the National Defense Power Committee to assistant secretary; Eagerness of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for military readiness; Report that impressed by the confusion, delay and muddle of 1917, the Congress just after the World War I gave the Assistant Secretary of War what amounts to the statutory powers of a Secretary of Munitions; Information on the training for skilled labor; Appropriation for the industrial mobilization section in the President's armament message; View that Johnson's planning envisages a war of the dimensions of the World War; Speculation on the friction between Johnson and the War Department generals; Report that strongly backed by Roosevelt, Johnson wants to see a mass production airplane industry, and mass production of munitions generally; Career journey of Johnson.

Analyzes the outcome of U.S. mid-term election held in 1936. Prediction on the gain of a seat by Democrats in Pennsylvania; View that Democrats have faced a normal mid term loss in the House of about eighty seats; Assessment of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy; Electoral victory of Republicans in several states of the U.S. including Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas and Iowa; Prospects of Republicans for their victory in Pennsylvania; Opinion that in New England, the chief Republican strength comes from what is--in the light of the party's demand for a balanced federal budget--a scandalously immoral deal with the Townsend movement.

Focuses on the possibility for Senator John N. Garner to be the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in forthcoming presidential elections. Efforts of a group of Senators for pursuing Garner's name for the presidential election; Beginning of Garner's political career with election as the Speaker of the House; Opposition of Garner to the political and economic doctrines prescribed by the New Deal; Achievements of Garner as politician before becoming the Vice-President of the United States; Differences in opinion of Garner with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Success of Garner to cling uninterruptedly to the federal payroll; Anecdotes of the relationship Garner shares with his fellow Congressmen.

Comments on the national unity and liberalism represented by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers in the Democratic primaries. Support of Labor's Non-Partisan League to the candidacy of Representative David J. Lewis against Senator Millard E. Tydings in Maryland; Announcement of Chief Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard that he will run against Senator Alva B. Adams in Colorado; Candidacy of Senator Walter F. George against U.S. District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp in Georgia; Certainty of the administration to win the contests in Indiana and South Carolina and to have better than an even chance in Maryland and Colorado.

Focuses on the political career of Democrat and assistant attorney general Robert Houghwout Jackson in the U.S. Role of Jackson in the counterattack of the New Deal on the Sixty Families; Defense of Jackson of the New Deal against big business during a speech; Disapproval of Jackson of monopoly; Advocacy of Jackson of traditional American democracy; Characteristics of Jackson; Career history of Jackson.

Features the Delta Cooperative Farm. Joint enterprise of dispossessed White and Negro sharecroppers established near Hillhouse, Mississippi. Creation of the Delta Cooperative Farm partly as a place of refuge from the terrorism that swept the nearby cotton counties of eastern Arkansas in 1934 and 35; Support and counsel of Sherwood Eddy; Assessment of the business of dollars and cents.

Focuses on the Maritime Act of 1936 that is unrivaled for looseness in federal legislation in the U.S. Information on two divisions of the Act; Provisions of the Act that deal with the operation of existing and future ship construction and provides for the almost complete rebuilding of the present merchant marine; Comparison of the act with the Jones-White Act of 1928; Statement that under the 1936 Act, the expiration date for the Jones-White contracts was set at June 30, 1937, and an announcement was made regarding a tentative schedule of operating subsidies for the next six months; Granted of subsidies to enable American ship owners to compete against foreign rivals; Effect of increase in the steel prices on the ship-building industry; Statement that to develop a mass-production industry would require a relatively large investment in new plants; Opinion on a merchant marine who forms an essential part of the national defense in the U.S.; Description of the Maritime Commission that possessed wide powers over maritime workers.

Focuses on John Llewellyn Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. Reference to his attempt to unionize the ten million workers of the United States' mass industries; Discussion of his conservative attitude; Portrayal of Lewis as belonging to the business type of labor leader; Attitude of his critics towards him.

Focuses on Father Charles E. Coughlin's campaign to back presidential candidates William Lemke and Thomas C. O'Brien with reference to his mass-meeting in the Cleveland Stadium. Reason behind Father Coughlin's decision to back Lemke and O'Brien; Announcement by Coughlin that Pennsylvania Irishman John H. O'Donnell, was the sole dissenter among 8,153 registered delegates and alternates; Evidence that Coughlin's power comes from the accumulated effect of his weekly broadcasts.

The article profiles William Lemke, the Union Party's Presidential candidate who is the author of the "Liberty Bill" in the U.S. Lemke is supported by the Farmers' Union and other militants because he led and supported thousands of Western farmers and farm tenants who perceived they got fewer benefits from Franklin Roosevelt's farm program. Lemke's affiliation with the Non-Partisan League is the greatest influence on his political career.

Focuses on the new soil-conservation and domestic allotment act (SCADA), formulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President Henry Wallace. Purpose of raising income through the Act; Intentions of Wallace to maintain parity between agriculture and monopolistic industry, through the Act; Types of payments made to farmers under SCADA; Requirement of farmers to refrain from planting a portion of their land in commercial crops, and agree to plant the same portion in soil-enriching crops; Terms and conditions for "soil-conserving" payments made to farmers; Plans of the government to distribute checks to farmers through the states; Invalidation of the old Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) by the Supreme Court; Problem of idle acres faced by AAA; Restriction of only specified major crops under AAA; Solution to the problem of idle acres under SCADA; Lesion afflicting the AAA due to intensive farming on the part of low-cost producers; Rise of prices under AAA; Equal treatment of farmers using scientific technique and those who aren't, under SCADA; Failure of AAA to distinguish among the varying circumstances of farmers.

Discusses the failure of the National Youth Administration's (NYA) program in achieving various social goals. Announcement by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the formation of NYA with an objective to improve the conditions youths and teachers; Criticism on NYA's sluggishness in putting its programs into operation; Publication of an article "The New Deal Is a Raw Deal for Public Schools, " by Willard E. Givens in the Journal of the powerful National Education Association, which reveals the attitude of teachers towards NYA; Programs and polices of NYA for high-school children and college students.

Focuses on the conflict between the so-called "hungry" and "sated" nations. Difference in the concept of "hungry" and "sated" nations; Lack of colonies producing raw materials, by hungry nations; List of "sated" countries published by the periodical "London Economist" to show that the sources of raw materials are concentrated in a few countries; Belief of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini that sated countries do not sell to Italians willingly; Monopoly prices charged by sated countries for raw materials supplied to hungry nations; Exploitation of hungry people in every country, by sated owners of mines, oil wells and plantations; Role of the probable Conquest of Ethiopia by Mussolini, in protecting the Italian people against this prospective larceny; Abundance of bauxite and aluminum raw materials in Italy; Monopoly of sated nations in tin and rubber, which is not produced by any of the hungry nations; Increase in the prices of both the commodities by sated nations; Dependence of the U.S. on foreign countries for tin, rubber and coffee; Initiative of the U.S. to discuss the raw material problem at the London economic conference; Need to abolish private ownership of raw materials.

Discusses the status of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's popularity and public opinion in the U.S. Results of the survey conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion suggests that Roosevelt's popularity dropped tremendously; Contrasting result of the survey conducted by the Garnett newspaper chain proves otherwise; Significance of the independent and hereditary voters for the success of Roosevelt for a reelection; Assertion of the author that independent voters are independent only in qualified sense and that they move from party to party; Contention of the author that an economic boom will improve the chances of Roosevelt getting reelected and weaken those of his reactionary opponents; Significance of the relationship of Roosevelt with the businessmen and farmers; Importance of the leaders of labor unions and community and social leaders in their power to influence great numbers of their fellows; Claim of the author that there is little to substantiate either the confidence of businessmen and the fear of radicals for the fate of Roosevelt is hanging on the balance.

Comments on the public work relief program of President Frank D. Roosevelt in the U.S. Opposition to the public-works program from business took the form of protests against government spending; Development of the rural resettlement; Rural electrification; Prevention of soil erosion and flood control; Restoration of country's agricultural fertility; Identification of the hydro-electric development and low-cost housing as categories of public works; Position of the administration in competing for the construction workers and investment funds.

Focuses on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Attempt of CCC to give a large part of the male youth of this country a conscious, realistic social point of view; promulgation of the "Handbook for Educational Advisors," by C.S. Marsh, CCC educational director; Efforts made by Marsh to collect funds for providing textbooks for boys in the camp; Information on the Ogburn pamphlet written by professor William Fielding Ogburn, on the industrial revolution and its modern consequences; Suppression of the pamphlet by Robert Fechner, director of Emergency Conservation Work; Role of Marsh in the accomplishment of the improvement of CCC camp libraries; Difficulties faced by Marsh due to non cooperation of Fechner; Accusations against the CCC; Demands for the removal of CCC from the U.S. War Department's control.

Presents information on the political relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Reference to the purchase of American machines and technology by the Soviet Union; Comments on the trade negotiations between the U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt and M. Litvinov, a Soviet diplomat; Litvinov wanted recognition from the United States and was ready to pay for it by a settlement of American claims against Tsarist Russia; Information that the State Department demanded 150,000,000 dollars in satisfaction of American claims against Tsarist Russia and the Russians offered to pay 125,000,000 dollars; View that the great harm has been the official discouragement given to the friendship of the American and Russian people.

Comments on the investigation conducted by Senator Gerald P. Nye and his committee on the munitions industry in the U.S. Exposure on the involvement of the industry in bringing nations close to war; Decision of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add several surveys on the industry; Statement on the potential benefit of the industry in the event of American involvement in war; Citation of the hostility of the administration toward the Nye committee; Address on the problem of preventing profiteering by the industry after the war; Determination of the profits made by businessmen holding munitions contracts; Commendation of the public to the works of the committee.

Focuses on the acceptance of the principle of government standards of quality for canned goods by chain stores. Encouragement for the consumers' representatives in the Roosevelt administration; Denouncement of the quality grading by the National Canners' Association; Struggle between the administration and the canners over quality grading; Enforcement of quality grading of canned goods in Canada.

Focuses on the allegations made against U.S. Postmaster General James Farley, of controlling all departments of the New Deal Administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Lack of protection of the federal jobs under civil service; Intervention of Farley in the recruitment of employees of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration; Exploits of Farley in ensuring benefits for real-estate owners, contractors and local Democratic leaders in the Public Works Administration appointments.

Focuses on the hearing on issues related to interests of manufacturers and suppliers of weapons, held in the United States before the Senate committee under Senator Gerald P. Nye's chairmanship. Evidence regarding surplus weapons revealed by John Ball, head of a contracting firm that disposes of the British War Ministry's surplus weapons; Interference of weapon manufacturers in international affairs; Views expressed by several weapon producers during the hearing; Comments of Webster, a firm which supplies planes, regarding Bolivian bombing on Paraguay; Belief that industrialists might see an interest in pushing the United States into a war for their own interest; Perception of Nye for ending the danger of armament markers' forcing the U.S. into another war; Intention of the State Department behind providing weapons to China regarding the Soviet Chinese relationship.

Discusses that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's project for a Great Plains shelter belt, one hundred miles wide and stretching from Canada to Texas, is just now suffering from over-publicity. View that the chief thing that a shelter belt is supposed to accomplish is the preventing, or at least the minimizing, of dust storms; Location of shelter-belt project to the eastward of the principal dry farming areas; Experiments of the Forest Service, which show that a shelter belt composed of trees one hundred feet high will reduce evaporation on the ground moisture by perhaps as much as one third, for a distance of thirteen hundred feet to leeward; Claim that a shelter belt is no substitute for adequate rainfall; Economic significance of shelter belt project

Focuses on the role of the newly recruited young men and women instructors in implementing the New Deal policy in the U.S. Assessment on the political awareness of the young instructors; Aims of the graduates to support the economic reform programs proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Views of the political leaders on communism; Factors causing the rise of rebellion in the country; Compliance of various business enterprises on the terms and conditions of the New Deal policy.

Focuses on international arms business of the U.S. with other countries. Protest by Eiji Amau, Japanese Foreign Office spokesman against the sale of America military planes to the Nanking Chinese government; Supply of military arms and weapons by the U.S. to China; Argument pertaining to conspicuous profits of American automobile manufacturers that are gained from the war threats of the Far East; Use of munitions by South America preparation for the conflict between Colombia and Peru over Leticia; Difficulty in estimating American munitions sales to Bolivia; View that under private capitalism and in a world of nationalist states, the U.S. cannot prevent other countries from using American materials to manufacture munitions.

Focuses on political developments in the U.S. View that the Uruguayan government is finding great difficulty in keeping its collective mind on the Pan-American Conference; Mention of a League of Nations commission of investigation in Paraguay; Discussion of tariffs and debts by the head of the American delegation; Information that American control of Haitian governmental finances is to continue during the life of a $23 million loan floated through the National City Bank.

Focuses on the pure food and drug bill proposed by the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's administration. Criticism of the bill by the patent-medicine makers, the drug wholesalers and the great drug store chains; Description of the exhibits of dangerous and fake patent medicines, cosmetics and foods in the Food and Drug Administration's chamber of horrors; View that the Roosevelt administration has provided the Food and Drug Administration officials courage to defy the patent-medicine makers.

Presents an insight into characteristics of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Information that from its inception, the Roosevelt administration has been made up of clearly recognizable Right and Left wings; View that the administration lacks a permanent, agreed upon monetary program; Steps taken by Roosevelt on the issue of banking reorganization; Statement that the limits within which the administration is able to maneuver in its banking policy are fixed; View that the administration's outstanding achievement is the National Recovery Administration.

Discusses the attitude of the patent-medicine industry towards the Pure Food and Drug bill sponsored by the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Information that the patent-medicine manufacturers, as a group, constitute one of the country's largest buyers of advertising space; Report that through their counsel, Harry B. Thompson, they allege that the liberal element in the Roosevelt administration wishes to prevent "self-medication" altogether; Information that the food section of the administration's bill is principally designed to extend to the whole food industry existing restrictions in the McNary-Mapes law.

Presents information about the Tennessee Valley Authority that was set up by the U.S. administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Criticism of the policies of Arthur E. Morgan, the head of the Authority in relation to economic and social planning; Wish of Morgan to withdraw all submarginal and marginal land in the Valley from agricultural use; Plan of the Authority to put into operation the Muscle Shoals power plant, and push to completion the Cove Creek power project; Disadvantages surrounding the execution of the plan suggested by Morgan.

Focuses on the new citizen army of the U.S. Impact of the army on the young men and on the society; Composition of the present army; Reports that none of the recruits under the Selective Service Act will receive training that will aid them later on; Classification of recruits according to their skills and aptitude; Assumption related to the French disaster; Creation of a semi-governmental body; Alteration in the army discipline.

The article discusses the reports of William S. Knudsen, president of General Motors Corp. and Henry L. Stimson, the U.S. Secretary of War concerning the developments in the country's armament program. Knudsen estimates that the program will be completed in the middle of 1944. Stimson, on the other hand, discloses that the Army has been able to close contracts for only thirty-three planes.

The article discusses the actions to be taken by the U.S. government to help Great Britain against the war against the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Germany 1940. It was speculated that the quickest aid to be brought to the British will consist of raw materials and semi-manufactured products. The U.S. administration has already ransacked its reserve stocks of arms.

Focuses on the political career of Paul Vories McNutt in the U.S. Nomination of McNutt as Democratic president; Career history; Investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue on McNutt's income-tax returns.

Discusses the significance of the Republican position to totalitarianism. Story of Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg against poverty as part of his presidential-campaign propaganda; Election of Vandenberg to the Senate; Functions of Vandenberg in the Senate.

Presents an insight to Assistant Attorney General Arnold W. Thurman's indictments to the housing industry. Reason behind the attempt of Assistant Attorney General to indict the housing industry; Chief accusations against the industry; Account of monopolistic activities that presumingly will form the substance of Arnold's prospective anti-trust suits; General attitude over the indictments of Arnold towards the housing industry of the U.S.

Two letters to the editor are presented in response to the article by Jonathan Mitchell on the causes of war and another one comments on the pacifist movement in the U.S. and Europe.

Presents information on the danger of war between Japan and the Soviet Union. View that Japan's generals and admirals do not fear the Soviet Union now, but they are immensely afraid of what the country may become after 10 years; Claim that they also fear, or profess to fear, an approaching great struggle with the U.S. for the control of China; Information that a war in Siberia might conceivably be disastrous for the Soviet Union, and at best would divert energy from the country's industrial expansion; Details of the efforts made by the Soviet Union to form non-aggression agreements with its European neighbors.

Focuses on stability achieved in Far Eastern international relations; Announcement by U.S. and the League Assembly that the Japanese forces must evacuate Shanghai; Discussion about the question of extraterritoriality; Condemnation to any central Chinese government to relative poverty and weakness by extraterritoriality treaties; Success of Hamaguchi-Shidehara, Japanese Cabinet, in proclamation of peace with China; Overview of the legal position of foreigners in China; Importance of reasons for the abolition of extraterritoriality; Negotiations at Shanghai on the security of Japanese nationals within the Shanghai International Settlement; Possibility that China will have to go through a social revolution;.

Presents updates on U.S. politics as of November 1955. Circumstances which make journalist David Lawrence's recent position on the Eisenhower question strange; Impact of the statement given by Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, praising Governor Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, on chances that Lausche would run for the Democratic Presidential nomination; Statement given by Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, announcing that he was not a candidate for the U.S. presidency.

Focuses on the naval-building program of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cost of the program; Debate on the fate of the Public Works Administration (PWA); List of future PWA projects.