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The Week.

Source :
New Republic; 10/4/33, Vol. 76 Issue 983, p195-198, 4p
Publication Year :
1933

Abstract

Focuses on various socio-economic conditions in the world. Solution to control the wave of inflation sweeping the U.S. economy; Reduction of prices in industries like rail and railroad equipment in order to boost the capital expenditures; Description of special taxes on stock transfers, taxes on the gross profits of brokers, and other imposts directed against savings banks, insurance companies, public utilities and even taxicab riders by New York City; Repugnance shown by everyone except the students of Cuba against the present government headed by the Cuban President Grau San Martin; Account of Austria that has already reached that preparatory stage of fascism in which emergency decrees take the place of liberties and constitutional rights; Rescue of two African Americans from lynching by the Dallas, Texas police on Labor Day after their confession of murdering a white girl and seriously wounding her escort; Amelioration of agricultural and industrial production of the Soviet Union; Threat of the spread of unauthorized strike as the Frick coal mines, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel failed to sign the code and recognize the union; Analysis of various federal power project with emphasis on Muscle Shoals.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
76
Issue :
983
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
15020962