STATES & CITIES: New Machines

STATES & CITIES

Heart of the political thunderstorm of 1936 is the question: Can anything be done under the different and often contradictory laws of 48 states to solve the major problems of farm, labor, social security, crime, conservation, relief? Last week the centre of that storm was over Chicago and, like the centre of many a storm, it was a dead calm. Democrats and Republicans, sitting side by side in conference, tackled that highly charged question. Yet there was hardly a flash of political lightning, for their object was not to get elected...

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