The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-02

the New Deal are glVlng Unt
 With great relish they recall his equally excited efforts to persuade the Harvard law professor to ace cept the post of general counsel of the NRA Both Secretary Ickes end Harry Hopkins admit being seasick during their recent cruise with the President. Says Hopkins painfully: "Boy, I'll say we were sickl" Secretary Morgenthau now knows what 1t means to be on the receiving end of e governTnent-controlled press. Landing in dictatoE-ruled Portu. gal, he remarked casually to re. porters that he understood their country was enjoying real pros- perity. Next mornings papers quoted him ct great length to the effect that Portugal was the best ruled and most prosperous country in the world,
 No Speeding
 Legislation prohibiting the manufacture of motor vehicles with Q speed above 50 or SO miles an hour may be offered at the coming session. Senator Bur- ton K. Wheeler and Representa- tive Sam Rayburn, chairmeri of the senate and House Interstate Commerce committees, have dis- cussed such Q bill Despite the fact that no President of the United States ever has made Q flight, the Navy keeps Q special amphibian plane in constant readiness for his use Wash- ington's winter convention season will get under way November 1920 with one of the most i'm. portant gatherings of the year, the annual meeting of the Con- ference of Mayors. All cities of 60,000 and over will be repre- sented. General topic of this years convention will be, Fed eral and Municipal Relationships". The city officials will be received by the President, addressed by WPA Chief Harry Hopkins ... A quiet purge of anti-public pow. CT clements within the PWA has just been completed by Secretary Ickes. A number of officials, charged with holding up munici- pal power projects, have been eased out EZRA chiefs gradually are succumbing to Washington atmosphere. The rule that when boss Harry Hopkins boards an elevator in the EZRA building 1t proceeds immediately to his destination has been ex- tended to include his lieutenants, Corrington Gill, Mrs. Ellen Wood- ward and Aubrey Williams.
 Happy Days
 Signs of the times: Steel has jumped IT per cent ahead of last years output More wash. ing machines were manufactured in the last nine months than in all of 1884. They were twice the number produced in 1883 and 1882 Construction has pulled up from l8 per cent behind 1884 to c bare one per cent silk and rayon output are soaring, the former l3 per cent above last year despite Q marked increase in price Machine tools con. tinue their skyward climb, zoom- ' ing 88 per cent above 1884 4. Cotton consumption jumped to three per cent above last years total, and wool to 96 per cent more than 1884 Secretary Henry Morgenthau, just rec turned from Q months visit to Europe, is very bullish in private. The treasury boss is telling in- inmates that one reason for the stock market boom is the large quantity of jittery foreign money being poured into U. s. securi- ties Senator Pat Harri7 son, chairman of the Finance committee, has asked w. Jett Lauck, liberal economist, to write Q report for his committee on the NRA. Lauck plans to recommend new industrial legislation calling for short work-week, minimum pay scales and stringent control of profits.
 Defeat Driscoll"
 When the Senate utility lobby Investigating committee resumes its hearings, one question on its calendar is report that power interests have launched an un. dercover drive to defeat Repre-. sentative D. J. Driscoll. The Penn. sylvania democrat supplied the original information leading to the sensational fake-telegraans expose. and the utilities apparent- ly seek vengeance Attor- iaey General Homer Cummings won the gold case decision for the Administration, but he draws the line on gold-leaf decorations. Original plans for the ornate Justice Department called for gold trimmings on the walls and ceiling of the "A. G.'s" office. When Cummings objected, silver was substituted. Directly over his desk is large silver leaf. t IVA Town
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