Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since 1933, second only to Grover Cleveland's two-term record of 344 vetoes...
...fifth anniversary last week, PWA proudly pointed out that it had brought forth 25,000 permanent improvements on the U. S. scene. For the first 2,000 projects of its 1938 program, which include everything from a subway for Chicago to fleet moorings for the Navy, the following amounts of materials would be ordered in the next few months from U. S. industry...
...Switzerland as belonging to the Reich. The Swiss frontier is "the boundary of the internal separation of the German people," announced Göring's newssheet and claimed Switzerland's 3,000,000 Germans as "exiled citizens of the German Reich." Official Swiss protests registered in Berlin brought a semiofficial promise that the map would be withdrawn from educational circulation...
Three years ago an armistice halted the war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco, a dank jungle region sandwiched between the two nations, over which they have been squabbling for a century. Almost constant negotiations by neutral powers since the armistice have brought the dispute no nearer settlement. Fortnight ago the Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, composed of representatives of the U. S., Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, offered a solution which would have given landlocked Bolivia a port on the Paraguay river, and thus an outlet to the sea, Bolivia's main interest...
These remarks brought to light a behind-the-scenes fight between Mr. Eccles and the Treasury. The Federal Reserve Chairman would relax restrictions on bank investments and use bank regulations and examinations as the Federal Reserve uses its reserve requirements: loosen them in depressions, tighten them in booms. Stoutly opposed to this are Acting Comptroller of the Currency Marshall Diggs, and former Comptroller J. F. T. O'Connor who resigned three months ago to run for Governor of California. Both Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Diggs prefer to consider investment and loan restrictions, as well as bank examinations...