1. The Week.
- Subjects
UNITED States politics & government, 1929-1933 ,MILITARY weapons ,GREAT Depression, 1929-1939 ,NONCITIZENS ,WHEAT trade ,EXPORT controls ,GANGSTERS in motion pictures ,LABOR (Obstetrics) ,MATERNAL health services ,LEGISLATION - Abstract
Presents information on several political and social developments in the U.S. Viability of the suggestion of U.S. President Herbert Hoover, given at the International Chamber of Commerce, for the reduction of armament in the interest of a business revival after the great depression; View that President Hoover is using deportations of aliens on a wholesale basis as a weapon against radicalism; Discussion on the suggestion for an agreement among wheat-producing countries upon export and import quotas to regulate the world wheat market; Order of the mayor of Chicago to stop the exhibition of plays and movies showing the city as full of gangsters in an attempt to build up public sentiment against gangdom; Deliberation on the problem of maternity mortality in the U.S.; Discussion of the suitability of "Gwathmey method" designed for lessening labor pain; Information on Democrat's attempt to obtain progressive public-utility legislation in Connecticut.
- Published
- 1931