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Presents information on some recent socio-political developments. Proposal for a joint action by Great Britain and the U.S. to combat the situation prevailing in China; Opposition to a naval agreement between Germany and Great Britain by France; Agreement on Germans to have a naval fleet that is 35 percent larger than that of Great Britain; Information on war in South America; Passage of the social security bill and the National Recovery Administration legislation; Step toward providing unemployment insurance and old-age security; Increase in wages of electrical workers in Toledo after a 4 day strike; Order by R.L. Cochran, Governor of Omaha, Nebraska, to remove all the trolley cars from the streets; Information on charges made by E.Y. Mitchell, who was forcibly removed as Assistant Secretary of Commerce by U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt; Report of Brookings Institution on the crop reduction policy; Reactions to the steps taken by the U.S. to help France save her gold standard; Dismissal of Granville Hicks, assistant professor of English at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from his post; Description of the first meeting of the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms; Scheme for the reconstruction of Puerto Rico; Policy of reducing relief rolls in Oregon. |
