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Dates: during 1930-1939
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December 17, 1938 was the next big day for the Rebellion-when John Garner returned to Washington after six months in Texas. After two hours with National Chairman Jim Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session...
...baby produced in the President's next message was inspired by Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board: the promise of an 80-billion-dollar national income to be obtained by continued public spending. Ever since that birth, the President's Cabinet meetings have been sparring matches instead of consultations, with Mr. Ickes, Miss Perkins...
...Garner and his field marshal, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, are hopeful of achieving some concrete results when the tax bill comes before Congress. For John Garner believes in ordinary U. S. business -Wall Street excepted. If the Garner bloc can repeal taxes that business objects to, it will...
...grand jury returned indictments against twelve living Democrats, one dead (Warren Van Dyke) for assorted skulduggeries including payroll padding, coercing employes for political contributions, conspiracy to control the bonding of highway contracts. Among the 13: Governor Earle's Secretary of the Commonwealth David Lawrence, Democratic State Chairman who is out on bail on a previous indictment in connection with a gravel scandal; his Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore; his Secretary of Highways, Roy E. Brownmiller...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...