The President's Week

Last week the President:

P: Was asked to comment on Candidate Dewey's statement that the New Deal "is saturated with the defeatist theory that America is past its prime." He answered that this was an awful thing to think about at 5 minutes after 11 o'clock in the morning.

P: Asked Congress to consider a broad postwar program of rural electrification. ". . . In 1935, only one out of every ten of our farm families had central station electric service. Today, 43% of our farms are electrified. . . "

P: Suggested that Congress work out a plan (recommended by eight Missouri River Valley governors) for developing federalized power projects, modeled after TVA, in the Missouri, the Arkansas and the Columbia River Valleys.

P: Asked Budget Director Harold Smith to begin planning the liquidation of some of the Government's 3,618,035 workers.

P: Ordered the Army to take over and operate the plants of the Farrell-Cheek Steel Foundry Co. at Sandusky, Ohio, where 600 employes have been on strike since Sept. 11.

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