Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven months ago Army Chief Colonel Fulgencio Batista launched a social, economic "New Deal." On the one hand he amnestied Tyrant Machado, on the other he decided to make payments on the defaulted bonds to bolster Cuba's credit so he could begin borrowing afresh. Last week he had his figurehead President, Federico Laredo Bru, rubber-stamp through congress a settlement which provides: 1) refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment...
...contract was "void and of no effect." Its "precipitate granting," held the Board, smacked of trickery, since the company knew that the A. F. of L. union "did not represent the free choice of a majority of its employes." The only fair thing to do was to start afresh by holding an election...
...That he knew the Court Bill was lost but believed that the moral effect would be better if instead of retreating he pressed on to take his licking; that he thought it better politics to go down fighting like a man, then start afresh with public sympathy to make a comeback...
Year ago a disgusted Congress abolished the old Shipping Board and created a new U. S. Maritime Commission to wipe the slate clean and start afresh within one year. In the autumn, President Roosevelt appointed a temporary commission of two superannuated admirals and a man from the Treasury Department, but not immediately could he get the man he really wanted to do the job. After his brilliant performance launching SEC, a lot of people with big business headaches wanted Joseph Patrick Kennedy to be their Mr. Fixit. Paramount Pictures, Inc. paid him $50,000 for a drastic survey report. William...
...sulking Congress had already had a warning of his temper. Aboard his special train as it rolled up from the South day before, he had volunteered to newshawks the information that he was determined to press afresh the aims outlined in his Madison Square Garden speech last October. In that speech, angriest of his campaign, he had said that in his Second Administration he hoped that "the forces of selfishness and lust for power'' would "meet their master...