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Covers issues in the U.S. as of July 1941. Sale of the estate of the late investment banker Otto H. Kahn in Long Island, New York to the Briarcliff Junior College; Sentence imposed on Frank H. Wise, local head of the Volunteers of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for income-tax frauds; Enactment of a legislation collecting 3 percent of the gross royalty receipts of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in South Carolina.

Offers news briefs on business and political issues in the U.S. as of April 1940. Demolition of the Boulevard Apartments in Washington by the government; Proposal to cut the rate of the Building Trades Employers' Association in New York; Support of the Connecticut Supreme Court for the state Anti-Birth-Control Law.

The article presents information on the recent developmental issues in the United States. According to J.M. Gentry, State Safety Commissioner, a checkup had disclosed that thirty-two people were receiving pensions as needy blind. These people who were receiving these pensions were licensed by him to drive automobiles. In Baltimore, work has begun on a polo field and permanent model-yacht sailing basin in Herring Run Park under the Work Projects Allotment. In Washington, the National Emergency Council has hired Pare Lorenz away from the department of agriculture. This has been done in order to produce movies to be released as United States films.