Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Franklin Roosevelt loves the Supreme Court any better because his plan to change the Court was beaten, no one in Washington ever believed. Last week when he got around to signing the modest Court Bill enacted by Congress, he made it the occasion for a statement that served several political purposes: It demonstrated that he had not backed down from his original views. It peppered the bill actually passed with criticisms designed to show its total inadequacy. And finally it insisted that his own defeated plan was not just the President's desire but one of the heart...
...sparring partner for Terence "Terrible Terry" McGovern, and today although he looks 45, he is actually 20 years older. Forty-some years as an organizer and union leader brought him great prestige but little cash, and Ed McGrady felt that he owed it to his family to do better financially than the $9,000 he gets as second-string to Madam Perkins' fiddle. Last spring, he was reported to have declined a $50,000-a-year job with Distilled Spirits Institute partly because he felt that his job would not let him leave and partly because he felt that...
...probably a nice fellow personally. . . . He just doesn't understand modern trends. He has his feet in 1937 and his head in 1837." Cried Homer Martin: "We'll say 'Henry, if you want to continue to make and sell autos in America, you'd better get ready to put a union label on those Fords.' " But the biggest oratorical gun was fired by John L. Lewis, who arrived in time to give his personal blessing to the Ford drive...
...Senator Minton to the press: "He gave Indiana the best administration Indiana ever had. . . . He has acquaintances all over the United States. There isn't a crossroad that doesn't have someone that knows him. He's a great campaigner, too. There isn't a better one in the country. His views are substantially the views of the New Deal...
Blockade. Next step of the Japanese was to declare a blockade of the Chinese coast from Shanghai almost to Hongkong. At first Japan announced that the blockade would be aimed only against Chinese shipping. Few days later, still without formal declaration of war, Japan went one better, threatened that U. S., British and other foreign ships would also be searched for contraband if they put in at Chinese ports. Despite this neither London nor Washington put down a firm foot even when the British freighter Shengking, on its way to evacuate refugees from Shanghai, was questioned by a Japanese warship...