Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roared Boss Tom Pendergast, jabbing the air with his mighty forefinger: "I have never done a thing in my life except support Democratic officials to the best of my ability. I have not received that kind of consideration from Governor Stark. ... If his conscience is clear, I know mine is. I now say let the river take its course...
Last fortnight the Senate defeated an amendment to make Congressional approval by a mere majority a prerequisite of any Presidential shift. Since this point was the crux of the matter, the vote, though closer than expected, made it look as though the bill would have clear sailing. Far from silencing the opposition, however, it served to redouble it. Consequently, what had been merely a political tug-of-war last week became a nationwide commotion ranging from a series of articles by columnist Dorothy Thompson to the effect that if the bill passed "one man, once elected President, can rule this...
...Morgenthau, knowing that silver and politics have been well-mixed for over half a century, was playing innocent-as he was last week when he refused to confirm the obvious fact that he was now mixing silver and oil. For the wording of his statement made it perfectly clear that he had withdrawn his subsidy in retaliation for President Cárdenas' seizure of $400,000,000 worth of foreign oil investments (TIME, March 28). The action had been taken, said the Secretary, "in view of the decision of the Government of the United States to re-examine certain...
...remember and liked work in the old Russia. They remember it still as a hazy mirage because their salaries then guaranteed them sufficient food and the possibility of clothing themselves decently. ... I lived in 1937 and 1938 in western European countries, and therefore I am able to render a clear, exact account of the depth to which the fall of contemporary Russia has gone...
...speculative mechanism. Nor is this the only seed of contention between Cargill and the Board of Trade. Though Cargill has been in business since 1865 and has branches from Seattle to Albany, not until 1935 did it pry its way to membership in the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House. The Board of Trade long kept Cargill out because it was a corporation instead of the more clublike partnership the Board prefers. It was thus necessary for Cargill to clear its deals through other members, pay fat commissions. For similar reasons the Board of Trade tried to exclude Farmers National...