Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Agriculture and Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. in the R. F. C., Columbia professors both. Senators and Representatives privately denounce them as "second-raters" who command no widespread academic respect, flay them as radical theorists who are about to strangle the U. S. Government to death. Oft-repeated are the predictions that some day the power of the "Brain Trust" over the White House will cause a terrific rebellion within the party against its leader. But Dr. Moley, jealous of his close association with the President, is no radical. He believes in economic planning-just as Herbert Hoover...
Last week like a generalissimo on the battlefield Senator Thomas was in complete command of the Senate inflationists. Into the silver debate he sent his cohorts -Louisiana's Long, Nevada's Pittman, Utah's King-to make his arguments for him while he sat back and egged them on. When the roll was called, the nation was amazed to learn that 33 Senators plumped for inflation by the coinage of silver-a clear gain of 15 votes in three months...
...Senator Thomas was not to get his inflation bill through without any opposition at all. Few days before, Ogden Livingston Mills had sped back to Washington from California and the company of the man who had made him Secretary of the Treasury. At his command the Republican Old Guard in Congress closed their ragged ranks and prepared to give battle for the first time since March...
...snuffer on a brilliant issue comes "The Children's Hour of Crime," by Arthur Mann. In the article he expounds at length on the deletrious influence of such programs as "Little Orphan Annie," and "Skippy," on his children. He describes his horror at hearing his six-year-old son command him to "Stick 'em up!" and indulges generally in the expression of those paranoiac which, appearently, haunt parents when their children decided to become sheriffs or outlaws. While the conclusions of the article are interesting only in their absurdity, they move in a just cause; if the programs in question...
...Chain Store Stocks, Inc., September 1931; 14) National Securities Investment Co., September 1931; 15) Aviation Securities Corp., December 1931; 16) American, British & Continental Corp., January 1932; 17) Atlantic Securities Corp., May 1932; 18) Federated Capital Corp., August 1932; 19) was Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. of which Atlas took command two weeks ago (TIME, April...