Public Affairs Pamphlet, Issues 1-10Public Affairs Committee, Incorporated, 1936 |
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... United States is thrown on relief , and when the national income is reduced by fifty per cent in the course of three years . Nor is the problem simply one of periodic depres- sions . Even in times of prosperity we have idle factories ...
... United States is thrown on relief , and when the national income is reduced by fifty per cent in the course of three years . Nor is the problem simply one of periodic depres- sions . Even in times of prosperity we have idle factories ...
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... United States to see whether it is adequate to our demands upon it . Such a survey was the first of four studies recently undertaken by the Brookings Insti- tution , and the results are incorporated in their publication , America's ...
... United States to see whether it is adequate to our demands upon it . Such a survey was the first of four studies recently undertaken by the Brookings Insti- tution , and the results are incorporated in their publication , America's ...
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... United States was approximately 31 per cent less than in 1929. Assuming that productive capacity had remained stationary since 1929 , it will be seen that the actual output was only 55 per cent of the possible production . In 1933 and ...
... United States was approximately 31 per cent less than in 1929. Assuming that productive capacity had remained stationary since 1929 , it will be seen that the actual output was only 55 per cent of the possible production . In 1933 and ...
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... United States . Root of the Difficulty Why have we failed to make use of this vast source of potential income ? Is there some physical defect in our economic mechanism that prevents us from taking advan- tage of our surplus plant ...
... United States . Root of the Difficulty Why have we failed to make use of this vast source of potential income ? Is there some physical defect in our economic mechanism that prevents us from taking advan- tage of our surplus plant ...
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... United States an income of about $ 625 . The 77 billion dollars re- ceived by the 27,500,000 family groups in the country would have given an average of $ 2,800 to each family . Actually , however , the great majority of American fami ...
... United States an income of about $ 625 . The 77 billion dollars re- ceived by the 27,500,000 family groups in the country would have given an average of $ 2,800 to each family . Actually , however , the great majority of American fami ...
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Page 33 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Page 38 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 39 - SECTION i. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and...
Page 38 - The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. SECTION 3. He shall, from time to time, give to the congress information of the state of the Union...
Page 16 - When an Act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate, the judicial branch of the Government has only one duty—to lay the article of the Constitution which is invoked beside the statute which is challenged and to decide whether the latter squares with the former.
Page 33 - When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers ; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Page 37 - Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority and have an equal number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation...
Page 15 - I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks.
Page 29 - ... to discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he has filed charges or given testimony under this Act; (5) to refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of his employees, subject to the provisions of section 9(a).