Milestones: Current affairs Test

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against Gavagan Anti-lynching bill.

6. Dean of Senate, until his death in January, was Idaho's:

1. Carter Glass.

2. Hiram Johnson. 4. George Norris.

3. William Edgar Borah. 5. Henrik Shipstead.

7. Outstanding Democrat who has announced his candidacy for 1940 regardless of whether Mr. Roosevelt decides to run is:

1. Paul V. McNutt.

2. Senator Vandenburg. 4. Thomas E. Dewey.

3. John Nance Garner. 5. Jim Farley.

8. On Election Day two old age pension schemes known as "Ham and Eggs" and the "Bigelow Plan" were turned down by voters in: 1. Michigan and Minnesota.

2. California and Ohio. 4. Ohio and Oregon.

3. California and Florida. 5. Montana and Colorado.

9. In his second radio speech on U. S. foreign policy Col. Lindbergh aroused bitter criticism by:

1. Calling on the U. S. to stand by the democracies.

2. Suggesting seizure of British-owned islands in West Indies as security for Britain's war debt to U. S.

3. Intimating the U. S. should demand that Canada break her ties with the British empire.

4. Announcing that the German air fleet was superior to combined fleets of U. S., Britain, and France.

5. Urging a two-ocean fleet.

10. Russia, in picking on Finland, roused the ire of millions of Americans, most of whom know Finland only as the nation:

1. Of the Revolutionary War hero, Kosciusco.

2. Which produces our Edam Cheese.

3. Whose government, under Thomas Masaryck, sat in Pittsburgh during World War I.

4. Which pays its debts.

5. Whence comes our Finn 'n Haddie.

11. Many Protestant churchmen were up in arms when President Roosevelt appointed as his "peace" ambassador to the Vatican:

1. Benjamin Fairless.

2. Ernest T. Weir. 4.

3. Myron C. Taylor. 5.

12. Latest change in the Social Security Act was an amendment which:

1. Extends unemployment insurance to salesmen and casual workers.

2. Permits payment of old-age benefits in 1940 in stead of 1942.

3. Reduces the age requirement for annuities from 65 to 60.

4. Freezes old-age payroll tax at 4% through 1942.

5. Makes it mandatory that every working person in the U. S. have a Social Security number.

13. Governor Bricker replied with strong criticism of WPA when President Roosevelt rebuked Ohio for: 1. Voting down the old-age pension scheme.

2. Not supporting New Deal policies.

3. Ducking responsibility for relief.

4. Cincinnati's failure to win the World's Series.

5. Closing all schools in the State for two weeks.

14. On October 24 the minimum hourly wage for interstate industry became:

1. Eighteen cents.

2. Twenty-five cents.

3. Thirty cents.

4. Forty cents. 5. Fifty cents.

5. Fifty cents.

15. Father Coughlin first disavowed, later praised the organization from which a group of members were recently arrested by the F. B. I. for plotting a U. S. Dictatorship:

1. Christian Front.

2. Defenders of the Faith.

3. Nazis of America. American.

4. American League for Peace and Autocracy

5. American Catholic Union

16. Most unusual target of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold's anti-trust prosecution is:

1. The Communist

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