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The Week.
- Source :
- New Republic; 3/17/37, Vol. 90 Issue 1163, p149-153, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 1937
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Abstract
- Presents an account of the socio-political situation in the world. Agreement signed between the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company, a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel; Announcement of a new policy of friendship with China by the Japanese Foreign Minister; Comment on features of the Pittman resolution; Recommendation to the U.S. to manufacture their own military supplies; Information regarding the social conditions of workers in the U.S.; View that the government program is to be enlarged when private industry lays people off and to be cut down when private industry hires them back; Statement that the British government is attempting to provide a gas mask for every inhabitant of the city of London, England; Acknowledgement that he Duke of Windsor has leased a home near Baltimore, Maryland; Conclusion of the election of the London County Council held on March 4; Adoption of a law abolishing compulsory military training in state-supported educational institutions by North Dakota; Details on the effect of the medicine, dinitrophenol; Sponsorship of an eight-point legislative program by the Non-Partisan League; Description of execution done by Francisco Franco, Dictator of Spain; Reference to laws regarding cruelty on animals and child labor.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 90
- Issue :
- 1163
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15179382