Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July Congress authorized the Smith Committee to investigate the Wagner Act, to find out whether the Labor Board had been fair, to see what amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work...
...main commercial nowadays is Information Please, which is right up his broad alley. For this weekly half-hour, he collects $100 a week from Canada Dry. But since he announces it on NBC's time, the network thriftily docks him three-quarters of an hour's basic pay-about...
...this paradox can be resolved, a basic confusion still remains: the confusion about the role of the Communist in a liberal coalition. The H.S.U. is avowedly an organization for the preservation of peace and the extension of democracy. In theory it embraces all those who subscribe to those broad aims. In practice, however, it averages in political thought somewhere to the left of New Dealism...
...have been trying to find someone with broad enough vision and sufficient capital to become interested with us in developing these properties. There is no use bringing iron ore thousands of miles when there is a deposit 50 miles from the border...
Pausing thoughtfully on the steps, Mr. Harrison sucks heavily on his frankfurter-sized cigar-or Mr. Doughton fiddles with his broad-brimmed sombrero-and says in effect: Revenues are pouring into the Treasury in a way that gladdens our hearts. No tax increases will be necessary...