Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stopper" Smith. Still titular leader of the Democracy, Mr. Smith was among the first to reach Chicago last week, arriving almost a week ahead of time from his skyscraping office in Manhattan. His open purpose was to compress all non-Roosevelt factions into a solid bloc of votes to keep the New York Governor out of the nomination. Observing his activities, political experts pondered his motives. After his defeat four years ago he had said...
When BIZ was organized an additional bloc of stock was set aside to be bought within two years by other nations, providing each buyer was a state on the gold standard and could meet certain other reliability tests...
...German Federation, power has been held since 1925 by Socialist Premier Dr. Otto Braun whose support today is based on a Socialist-Centre coalition in the Prussian Diet elected in 1928 (when the world had not heard of Adolf Hitler). In the Diet sit only six Fascists, the "Joke Bloc" elected in 1928. If on April 24 Prussia should go proportionately as Brown as the rest of Germany has gone, there would be elected 120 Fascist Deputies?thus making Adolf Hitler leader of the majority party in Prussia which comprises 60% of Germany...
...Into this line of argument the La Guardia-Doughton bloc tore as follows: The tax would be passed on by manufacturers to the poor man. It would become a tax on destitution and poverty. It was a consumption tax and would thus stifle economic recovery. Once incorporated in the Federal tax system, it could never be got out. Precisely because it was easy to collect, it would stimulate governmental extravagance, thwart economy. To match the Hearst Press's whoops for the Sales Tax, the Scripps-Howard chainpapers whooped loud against it in "defense" of housewives and wage-earners. The manufacturers...
Among the Democrats, another deadlock was visioned, similar to the one of 1924 when Smith and McAdoo fought through endless ballots until John W. Davis was substituted as a compromise candidate. In the event of a stalemate being reached between the supporters of Roosevelt and the powerful opposing bloc it is not unlikely that Newton D. Baker will be the compromise candidate. At present, Smith seems out of the running while Roosevelt is continually recruiting strength from all over the country...