Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Date:
1939
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Leaf #:
000212
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1938-39 SoKOLSKY. — Here’s the point: First of all, the amount of government work in the total of our national industry is trivial. Secondly, we still have 12 million unemployed . . . after 9 years. Would you say 12 million, Mr. Miller? Miller. — I don’t think so many. SoKOLSKY. — Would II be a conservative number? Miller. — The American Federation of Labor indicates about II million. SoKOLSKY. — All right, ii million. We had only that number in the worst period of the depression. . . . Miller. — A little more at that time. SoKOLSKY. — And we’ve spent how many billion dollars since 1933? Miller. — Twenty billion dollars. SoKOLSKY. — Twenty billion dollars! And we come out at the end of 6 years exactly where we were, except that we’re 20 billion dollars poorer. That comes out of your pocket. Miss Brenner, and mine. Miller. — We’re not exactly where we were, Mr. Sokolsky. . . . O’Rourke. — What would you have done with all the men that would be out of work that were employed on that 20 billions of dollars ? What would they be doing during that period ? Brenner. — Don’t you think that something to restore business would be a better occupation for the industrialists than just trying to discredit the attempts of the President ? Sokolsky. — Any businessman is in business to make money, and if he can make money he’ll make it. If Roosevelt could make money for industry, he’d be the most popular man in the country with industry, and they’d contribute to his campaign fund. As it is, they buy insurance policies. Brenner. — Well, I think Roosevelt has contributed a great deal . . . {Discussion fades off the air) Announcer. — {Closing announcement) 188