Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynical Edward H. Collins. "If present conditions maintain, for example, there is every reason to expect that in the next few weeks the rate of finished and unfinished steel production will be far exceeded, proportionally, by the amount of finished and unfinished balderdash emanating from the President and such alter-egoes as Mr. Eccles and Mr. Morgenthau...
...restores him to a stupor. On the advice of the ex-King's doctor, his ex-Chancellor and ex-lady-in-waiting (Mary Nash) hatch a plot to give him a new interest in life. This consists of persuading a chorus girl who momentarily attracts his attention to alter the monotony of his unvarying success with women by not falling in love with him. The plan has the desired effect upon the King but the chorus girl (Joan Blondell), finding herself incapable of keeping her side of the bargain, embarks to go home to Brooklyn. The explanation...
...citizen, for decades ignored Canada. There were no direct diplomatic relations between the countries until Ministers were exchanged in 1927. Relations of Britain with the U. S. have often been more cordial than relations of Canada with the U. S. The President has been at pains to alter this situation...
...Some measures should be devised to alter the existing situation. Even the proposal now before the Senate, if cast as a constitutional amendment might be defensible...
Though no committee of Congress had yet begun hearings on it, the great debate on President Roosevelt's proposals to reform the Judiciary and, incidentally, to alter the Supreme Court, last week burst prematurely open in full Senate. First Tennessee's windy McKellar, then Arizona's courtly Ashurst, with interpolations by thunderous Majority Leader Robinson, shook the air with preliminary salvos. Reason: even before the historic Supreme Court Battle of 1937 began, the Administration was losing ground...