Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President did not let Postmaster General Farley fight liberals and progressives of other parties. One striking exception was Cutting, against whom a Democratic wheelhorse, Dennis Chavez, was nominated. After Cutting beat Chavez by 1,284 votes out of 151,000, his victory was contested. Although the liberal-progressive bloc and the New Deal still continued their tacit working agreement, Cutting became the symbol of a basic flaw in that agreement. Then last fortnight, returning from New Mexico where he had been attending to the contest for his seat, Bronson Cutting crashed in Missouri. Franklin Roosevelt had lost his outstanding liberal...
...because it bears their party label. Many a Democrat has put party loyalty above his own convictions but today such loyalists as Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison find it hard to hold together the coalition of New Dealers and Democrats. For at heart the biggest bloc of Democrats still prefers states' rights to centralization of power. Last week's debate on the anti-lynching bill reminded them again. The slowing down of legislation in the 74th Congress can be traced to the unwillingness of Democratic Congressmen to vote the New Deal such power...
Secretary Morgenthau had to reconsider his immediate plans for reintroducing silver to the world. He called the silver bloc (Senators Pittman, Borah, Wheeler, Adams, King) to the Treasury for a conference. Although the world price for silver stood above the U. S. price, it was decided that for the moment the U. S. would not raise its ante a third time. Promptly the world price flopped back below the U.S. level to wait for the next move...
Latin School's younger graduates may yet do it as much honor as the old Yankees. The College Entrance Examination Board is never surprised when Boston Latin boys top all other U. S. students in Latin, Greek, mathematics. At Harvard they regularly form the biggest and smartest bloc of students. Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1908) is now chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission and many an-other bright Latin School graduate has found his way to Washington...
...French Chamber Finance Committee last week Premier Flandin fought a sharp verbal duel with the No.1 French devaluationist, M. Paul Reynaud, who crowed: "I point to devaluation of the belga as evidence of the soundness of my position. It indicates that the gold bloc countries cannot go on indefinitely handicapping themselves in trade. This morning in Paris I can buy for 92 francs Belgian goods that cost 120 francs before the belga was devalued...