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The Week.

Source :
New Republic; 11/23/32, Vol. 73 Issue 938, p28-31, 4p
Publication Year :
1932

Abstract

Focuses on political and economic issues in the U.S. Response of the country to President Herbert Hoover's suggestion that Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt consult with him on the immediate problem of the war debts has divided along partisan lines; Report by Federal Reserve Banks that in the Election Day week there was a sudden increase of $35,000,000 in the currency in circulation; Pronouncement by Democrat Nicholas Murray Butler that the Republican party has long been on the slide, and will vanish as did the Federalists and Whigs; Reopening of the Geneva Conference on Limitation of Armament; Vote by the people of Nicaragua in a new regime; Series of proposals made by the organizations of the unemployed, to the officials in charge of relief administration; Possibility that the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to writer John Galsworthy will be generally approved; Effects of the full texts of the Ottawa agreement; Contention by some of the leading economists that there would difficulty in collecting the war debts of the Allies; Indication by the statistical presentation of the wheat prices; Response of the real-estate business to the $1,500,000,000 loan by Reconstruction Finance Corp.; Announcement by Governor Jim Rolph of California, of his intention of pardoning all the prisoners in the state who are being punished for violation of the California prohibition-enforcement law; Lesson to the nation through the conflict between troops and citizens in Switzerland.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
73
Issue :
938
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
15006363