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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hence, the New Deal can live. Its liberal philosophies can live if the President will abandon his harsh tactics in pressing through unpopular measures at express-train speed, if he will modify his tude. In this way he can prevent the formation of an anti-administration coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition of liberal Democrats and Republicans. Succeeding here, he would be able to push through the principal legislation on his agenda--broad extension of old-age security--while at the same time consolidating his constructive measures of the past...
...Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make an army division in which they had been carrying on their criminal work abandon the front." What had happened was that the extremely independent P.O.U.M. militia had refused to become absorbed in the new, unified and reformed People's Army on the Aragon front...
...East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which Adolf Hitler drew on his map at Godesberg...
...Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, a by-product of Minnesota's potent Farmer-Labor Party-a similar attempt to expand a State third-party machine beyond State borders. The burgeoning National Progressives, already a force in California politics and last fortnight unsuccessfully implored by Democratic Governor Nelson Kraschel to abandon their plans for a three-cornered race in Iowa this year, have more than once rubbed elbows with Farmer-Laborites but have preserved a state of truce. This year, in return for staying out of Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary, the Federation besought Governor La Toilette...
...meets September 28. This plum was originally contingent on Jimmy Hines's conviction but Republicans, convinced that the trial will not be finished before the convention, were reported willing to take the gamble. Result: Democratic leaders tried to persuade either Governor Herbert Lehman or Senator Robert Wagner to abandon his Senatorial campaign, and stand for Governor against Jimmy Hines's prosecutor...