Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that Abraham Lincoln by his Emancipation Proclamation deprived more people of property without due process than any President in U. S. history, he is the spiritual Andrew Jackson of the G. O. P. As a political saint, however, Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners. Last week, to the Republican State Central Committee in Michigan came an idea for using Lincoln's feast day to make political mockery of Jackson Day. Their plan: to hold Lincoln Day dinners, the proceeds of which will be used...
...rest of Moscow by enormous, closely guarded walls, is a privilege now granted only exceptionally to Soviet citizens and foreigners. Last week the 569 deputies of the Council of the Union and some 3,000 other people who had acquired special permits surged into the Hall of St. Andrew (Throne Room) of the Great Kremlin Palace. The seats for the spectators were separated only by a small barrier from those of Russia's elected representatives. So it was hard to tell who was who and spectators solemnly raised their hands at the same time as deputies, whenever a vote...
...viewing himself retrospectively in the grandeur he will have assumed 100 years hence. In Washington last week the President made good use of his opportunity. From a beginning devoted to a historical picture of the New Deal as the logical modern flowering of a tradition in government set by Andrew Jackson, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Cleveland and Roosevelt I, the President adroitly proceeded to echo the remarks of his underlings on the subject of monopoly. Excerpts...
Cabinet Members, when they speak solo, usually make headlines. Last week, in concert, they did nothing of the sort. At Nashville, Secretary Ickes drew a parallel between Andrew Jackson's struggle with the Bank of the United States and Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with "the hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats...
...Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall to one of the stanchest foes that TVA has in the House, Kentucky's Democratic Andrew Jackson...