Defeat or the PWA.

Focuses on some recent socio-political and economic development in the United States. Report that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers will very soon bet on whether business activity and employment will improve in the interval between 1939 and the 1940 campaign; View that the recent softness in commodity prices was caused chiefly by the war threats of the dictator nations; Report that the business activity at the present moment is being supported by the program of the Public Works Administration (PWA) and by government-inspired home building; View that if there is to be a new PWA program, it must be passed at the present session of Congress, and hearings on it should begin shortly; Speculation over the administration's stand on the issue of PWA loans for municipally owned power plants; Report that complaints related to alleged illegal acts by anti-union employers in labor disputes are coming into the new Civil Liberties section of the Department of Justice, headed by Henry Schweinhaut; View that the complaints form the strongest sort of testimony, incidentally, against amendments to the Wagner Act; View that the establishment of Schweinhaut's section in the department means that La Follette Committee--despite earnest appeals from the Congress of Industrial Organization and liberal Congressmen--is being definitely dismantled; Controversies related to the recent failure of New Jersey Title Guaranty and Trust Co.