Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defined by Promoter Knoble's smoothly professional copy, function of the Alliance is first to collect information about the problems of the middle class and then to DO SOMETHING. What Cliff Knoble proposed to do, first for Detroit and then for other localities, he did not make clear. But the things about which he proposed to do something were made plain: 1) taxes, State and Federal; 2) labor disputes. Major emphasis was on taxation (in an M. C. A. pamphlet, eight of 15 listed objectives deal with reducing Michigan and Federal taxes and expenditures). Excerpts...
...each nation presented its views, it became clear that there were two funda mental splits to be bridged before a plan could be put into effect...
...Union. Using 644 words to Lincoln's 266, Franklin Roosevelt pictured the people's Government threatened by unnamed enemies: ". . .When a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up. . . . The fight must be fought through to a decision so clear that it is accepted as being beyond recall." In Lincoln's case, "a generation passed before the new unity became accepted." In Franklin Roosevelt's case, "it is another conflict, as fundamental as Lincoln's, fought not with glint of steel but with appeals to reason...
...Would not abortion be "curt, clear, complete...
When Franklin Roosevelt addressed all the People in depressed April, he said he proposed to "sail, not drift." But not until Congress had rigged the ship of state for him and cleared the decks by going home, was Skipper Roosevelt free to kick the tiller over and square away. Last week that moment came, and with vigorous word and action Franklin Roosevelt made perfectly clear what course he had laid out: through the narrow Strait of Recovery, boldly past the storm-ridden Primary Isles, to the snug harbor of Fall Elections...