Word: acorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era's modest prototype for what, after 1933, became known as Franklin Roosevelt's billionaire "alphabet soup...
...acorn from which the Ukrainian oak is expected to grow is the autonomous district of Ruthenia, eastern tip of the German-dominated remainder of Czechoslovakia. Poland tried to coax Hungary into grabbing Ruthenia last month, but Germany effectively vetoed the idea. The 725,000 Ruthenians differ only slightly from Ukrainians in dialect and religion...
...months ago Franklin Roosevelt said he wanted the various systems of bank examinations standardized. Last week from this acorn had sprung an oak: exams were not only unified but the banks' lending policies had been greatly changed by a new extension of New Deal credit control...
...nucleus was a group of 69 New York retailers calling themselves the "Acorn Stores." In its second year the IGA oak was spreading all over the U. S., did a total business of $60,000,000. By the end of 1928 there were IGA stores in 36 states. From his Chicago headquarters President Grimes planned country-wide sales campaigns to move macaroni, coffee, candy. He gave his grocers clean new forms for efficient budgeting, sent them experts in store-brightening and toothsome display. Deciding that convention speeches were tiresome, he sent out a traveling troupe to stage edifying grocery skits...
Sitting back in his executive chair in the Chicago office last week, Grocer Grimes had the satisfaction of sifting through a stack of congratulatory messages in recognition of the oak he had nurtured from his original Acorn members. He had telegrams from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Millard E. Tydings, and Alf Landon. Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems...