Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn had the backing of the lobbyists of the steel and cement industries and the American Association of General Contractors. What! cried the earmarking bloc. Billions for beans for the unemployed and not one cent for pork...
Mussolini told Austria's Chancellor Schuschnigg that he could no longer defend Austrian independence as he had before, but the gobbling of Austria by Germany might be postponed many months if Austria would follow Yugoslavia in joining a Fascist bloc of Danubian States which would isolate Czechoslovakia from her French and Russian allies...
...Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify himself as a candidate for next year's election. Such treachery to Rio Grande and himself has provoked Getulio Vargas to set up a parliamentary bloc to undermine General Flores da Cunha in his own bailiwick, a process which continued steadily through last week's commotion...
...coincidence is the well-known fact that Franklin Roosevelt wants to leave his mark on history in foreign as well as domestic policy, the fact that he has had his State Department busy scanning every conceivable proposal, from a Western-Hemisphere-neutral-bloc to new limitation-of-armaments measures...
...Roosevelt reform would freeze incumbent Democrats into their jobs for good, joined Democrats who felt as Oklahoma's Nichols did about losing their patronage. Defying the President, who had asked for the bill as first step in his great program of reorganization (TIME, Jan. 25), the rebellious bloc engineered amendments which emasculated it. As though to symbolize the anonymous standing votes by which this deed was accomplished, lights suddenly winked out, plunging the House into darkness. When light was restored and Administration leaders had forced a roll-call vote, the timid rebels shrank from recording their insubordination, killed...