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The Week.

Source :
New Republic; 9/30/31, Vol. 68 Issue 878, p163-166, 4p
Publication Year :
1931

Abstract

Presents news from the world. View of U.S. President Herbert Hoover on the new bonus legislation; Information on the Herndon-Pangborn case of spying in the ongoing Japanese war in Manchuria; Report that the famous drop a crop cotton plan of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana has received its death blow at the hands of Governor of Texas and his supporters in the Texas state legislature; Report that the collapse of the Long plan has been a useful corrective to many people carried away by the success with which Governors of Oklahoma and Texas, have reduced oil production in those states and increased the price by more than 100 percent; Controversy on the letter of Hoover to the newspaper "The New York Times," on its eightieth birthday; Campaign of the people of Westchester County, New York, to compel reduction of their electric light rates; Repudiation of the inhabitants of Coalton, Ohio, on the issue of high fuel gas rates; Information on the Chicago, Illinois organization--The Federation of American Business Men; Information on a convention in Rethel, in the French Ardennes, at which several hundred delegates from the intellectuals of France and Germany, met on their own initiative to discuss ways of effecting a Franco-German entente.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
68
Issue :
878
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
14989010