Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War, today in the prime of life, are better off from the point of view of employment and annual income than the average of any other great group of our citizens." From Miami, where Legion politicians had already lined up a third of the organization in a Bonus bloc, National Commander Edward A. Hayes cracked back: "I cannot agree." Mrs. Roosevelt flew right back to Washington as soon as the ceremonies were over. The President & friends drove to Yorktown, boarded the Sequoia for a weekend cruise up Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac...
Floundering in the doldrums of Depression, small Belgium has had recourse to a threat: either France, leader of the World Gold Bloc, must come to Belgium's economic aid or Belgium will quit the gold standard so cherished by France...
...present this alternative in an appropriate atmosphere, Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar of Belgium succeeded in assembling at Brussels last week a conference of the entire Gold Standard Bloc: France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Poland. The Poles had at first refused to attend. At the last minute Warsaw got wind that Paris was prepared to make handsome concessions all round to keep the Bloc on gold. In a wild scramble a "Polish Delegation'' to the Brussels Conference was hastily recruited at the Polish Legation in Brussels...
...London Naval Parleys opened up, the Anglo-Saxons gave us quite definitely the impression that they were in sympathetic accord with the American conviction at the coming Parley. And that conviction: Japan shall not have naval equality. It certainly appeared that there was to be an Anglo-American bloc, a united front of two nations in concerted beliefs...
...amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily to knit the disorganized Progressives into a bloc. Never sympathetic to the Hoover administration, he became its increasingly vehement critic as the Depression deepened. Early in the Depression he introduced a bill for a $5,000,000,000 bond issue to pay for a public works program. Following its defeat he continued to bark unceasingly at the Presidential heels...