Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...averaged 32,000 visitors a day in the past, would have to almost quadruple daily attendance to hit 24,000,000-which is too much even for California optimism. Mired in debts, the Exposition even acknowledged last week to owing the city of San Francisco four months' back rent - $4, or $1 a month...
Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn got so mad he accused Republicans, with apparent accuracy, of balking "just because he happens to be Franklin D. Roosevelt." The losing vote was 229-to-139, 49 short of two-thirds. The bill had to go back for rerouting through the Rules Committee...
...Back at the White House, tea became a New Deal question bee. Secretaries Hopkins, Wallace and Perkins were there; Robert Fechner (who promised the King a treatise on CCC), FHA's Stewart McDonald (who got on with the Queen immediately after telling her his family came from Skye). A. F. of L.'s William Green went (but C. I. O.'s John Lewis declined). Everyone was impressed by both the King's and the Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find...
...muscle by winning exclusive recognition (but no closed shop) from the Briggs Manufacturing Co. in Detroit, called off a strike which had tied up Chrysler and Lincoln plants as well, by depriving them of Briggs auto bodies (TIME, June 12). Having just taken his minority U. A. W. back into A. F. of L., President Homer Martin thereupon displayed his muscle. He demanded that big General Motors recognize his union to the exclusion of C. I. O., called a strike in three G. M. plants and threatened more...
...Hughes is the second man in history to have been both Justice and Chief Justice. The first was Edward Douglass White, whose colleagues in 1910 unanimously petitioned President Taft for his elevation to lead them. Mr. Hughes resigned from the Court in 1916 to run for President, went back as Chief in 1930 by President Hoover's appointment. Washington insiders last week predicted that, if Franklin Roosevelt must pick a new Chief Justice and follows precedent by picking from the field, his choice will lie between Frank Murphy and Robert Houghwout Jackson. If he promotes a Court member, they...