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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arkansas & the Constitution. ". . . The Louisiana Purchase . . . has always had a special significance for me. I am interested in it for family reasons because Robert R. Livingston,* our Minister to France, negotiated the purchase by direction of President Thomas Jefferson-and I must admit that he drove a very shrewd bargain. . . . [Jefferson] had the courage to act for the benefit of the United States without the full and unanimous approval of every member of the legal profession...
...have retained any vestige of common sense," rasped Chancellor Chamberlain, "we must admit that we have tried to impose on the League a task beyond its powers. The circumstances in which the Italo-Ethiopian dispute began offered a most favorable opportunity to exercise the League of Nation's policy of 'collective security,' but that policy, based on Sanctions, has been tried out and has failed...
Franklin Roosevelt last week prepared for the Republican National Convention. One candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination was Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, who two months ago scored a telling point against the New Deal by making Secretary Wallace admit that several big sugar producers had collected around $1,000,000 each in bounties. Accordingly, the President now took the opportunity to write Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, sponsor of a stop-gap sugar control bill to succeed the late...
...continue the existence of this school which for the past twenty five years through the influence of its graduates has really been the most vitalizing force in the profession. For Harvard to fail in this effort, thus sacrificing so much of the achievement to date, will be to admit either that she has not sufficient breadth of vision to recognize the essential art of planning or that she does not feel it important enough to seek further some way of providing for the continuance of the school. Draveaux Bender--Massachusetts State Planning Board Staff Oscar Sutermeister...
...admit that Alf Landon was born of humble but of honest parentage. He was not born of an illustrious family whose name is known. He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and educated by private tutors and when he goes fishing, being so plain and simple, he gets a cane pole and a can of worms instead of taking a trip on a million dollar yacht of a social highlight...