1. The Week.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL relations -- 1919-1932 ,UNITED States federal budget ,INDUSTRIES ,FASCISM ,PRESS ,TRIALS (Law) - Abstract
Presents information on various social and political developments around the world. Proposal put forward by the Labor Cabinet for balancing the budget; Information on a plan proposed by Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Company, for stabilization of industry to the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association; Opinion of senator William Borah that the five Great Powers should agree to suspend all naval building for the next five years, as an economic measure to help these countries balance their budgets and to bring relief to their harassed taxpayers; Comment on the expected Fascist uprising in Austria; Encouragement of American business firms at the expense of the European competitors by the Nanking government; Problems faced by the Communist governments which control large areas of south-central China; Comment on the unconcern of the American press over the reign of terror in Harlan, Kentucky; Allegations made by American press against Federal Farm Board for concealing some of its most important acts even after news regarding them had been published abroad; Information on the trial of Pauline Roth, the manager of a New York City bookshop, who was charged of selling the book "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
- Published
- 1931