Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...processing taxes from those to whom they were refunded by Supreme Court order. Taxes to pay for the Bonus were another matter. Whatever amount of taxes the President might ask to meet the Bonus cost over a period of years, the request would invite a fight with the inflation bloc which demands the issuance of new money rather than the imposition of new taxes...
...keen personal interest in the problems involved in Russia's offensive expansion to the cast enable him to vivify the difficulties of assimilating under central control peoples who are racially different, and who speak 183 different dialects. Although Russia is emphasized, much attention is given to the "Middle East bloc", to China, and to Japan. Personally convinced that world politics of the next century hinge on Asia, he instills his personal enthusiasm into his audience...
Though they promptly introduced a bill changing several of the above Presidential powers from "may" to "must." Senators Nye, Clark and other members of the Congressional peace-by-isolation bloc were, in general, surprised and pleased by the Administration's concessions to their ideas of Neutrality. Meantime this week they planned to bring the nation's peace passion once more to white heat and whoop Neutrality through Congress by haling J. P. Morgan & Co. before their Senate Munitions Investigating Committee, setting out to reveal how much that firm's Allied loans and credits were to blame...
What happened was simple. A year and a half ago the silver bloc in Congress, headed by Senator Key Pittman of silvery Nevada, passed a law instructing the U. S. Treasury to buy silver until the U. S. held one-third as much silver as gold in its reserves or until the price of silver reached...
...Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...