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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Budgeting for Battle. Simultaneously in Paris and in Tokyo the statesmen of two Great Powers settled their war budgets last week. Not a single sentence of Japan's budget debate passed her censors. Tongue-waggling in the French Chamber produced an international sensation, touched off screaming eight-column headlines such as RUSSIA OFFERS TROOPS TO FRANCE! Next day two-column heads began "France Denies . . ." but close observers noted that no actual denial was made of what Deputy Léon Archimbaud actually said. As Rapporteur of the Military Budget, M. Archimbaud is one of the five French civilians privileged...
...June 1769, Gov. Bernard transferred the General Court to Cambridge, despite great protest from the members, and lodged them in the "Philosophy chamber" of Harvard Hall, which he designed, and put the House in Holden Chapel. After a few days, at their request, the Legislators were removed to the chapel at Harvard, and Holden was again used for devotions as first intended...
...assume leadership of the whole co-operative drive. It resolved that "utterances by the President encourage the belief...that he is receptive of suggestions for promotion of the common welfare." It pledged "fullest co-operation." It appointed a Recovery committee headed by none other than Silas Hardy Strawn, Chamber president under Herbert Hoover and die-hard New Deal critic. Within two days, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, still pinching itself incredulously, found itself the leader of the whole current business drive to put men and money back to work before Congress meets...
That chance was dumped in the Chamber's lap by two tycoons and the U.S. Press. Feeling an urge to play on Mr. Roosevelt's side, President Lewis Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. and Pickler Howard Heinz hastened to Washington, there to talk with the President and conservative New Dealers. Messrs. Heinz & Brown soon gathered that, if private enterprise could hoist the business curve a notch or two in the next 60 days, there was reasonable hope of keeping the Administration a little to the Right of Centre. With some tangible evidence of Recovery in his hands...
...Press soon blossomed with loud hints of the chastened Big Business attitude. Just before the Chamber's directorate met last week the New York Times front-paged a story speculating on what recognition that group would give to the new spirit of conciliation...