Before departing for fun on the deep. President Roosevelt last week made a clean sweep of "must" jobs. Day by day he gradually waded through the big legacy of bills left by Congress. In his favorite frank way he announced that would resort to no sly pocket vetoes. Instead he wrote upon 31 private bills: "disapproved and signature withheld, Franklin D. Roosevelt."* Two important measures he did sign: the Farm Bankruptcy Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, which, in future, will cost the railroads some $60,000,000 per year to pension off their 65-year-oldsters....
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