Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President-elect Roosevelt: I seek in every proper way to be of help. It is my view that disarmament, intergovernmental debts and permanent economic arrangements require selective treatment. ... As to disarmament, your policy is clear and satisfactory. ... As to debts, certainly the Chief Executive has full authority to conduct preliminary investigations. . . . I am impelled to suggest that these surveys should be limited to determining facts and exploring possibilities rather than fixing policies binding on the incoming administration. ... As to the economic conference, I must respectfully suggest that the appointing of the permanent delegates and the final determination of the program...
...such eminence as your telegram suggests would not imply mere fact-findings; it would suggest the presumption that such representatives were empowered to exchange views on matters of large and binding policy. . . . May I suggest that you proceed with the selection of your representatives to conduct the preliminary exploration necessary with individual debtor nations, making it clear that none of these representatives is authorized to, bind this Government as to any ultimate policy. ... I shall be happy to receive their information. ... I shall be very glad if you will keep me advised. ... I also shall be happy to consult with...
...situation as it has developed it appears necessary for the executive to proceed. ... It is clear that ordinary diplomatic agencies are not suitable for the conduct of negotiations. . . . We must honor the request for discussion [of debts] by nations who have sought to maintain their obligations to us. ... The discussion of debts is necessarily connected with the solution of the major problems at the World Economic Conference and the Arms Conference. . . . The ideal way therefore would seem to be that some of our representatives should be selected at once who can perform both these functions of preparing for the World...
Last week the Scott legend began to crack None too sure what manner of man he was, professors at Ohio State University withdrew their names as his sponsors when he came there to lecture. And the New York Herald Tribune had the enterprise to conduct and publish an inquiry into Howard Scott's past, together with a somewhat toplofty editorial to assure Wall Street that the status quo was not in danger...
...twelvemonth, and on successive anniversaries, prayers are again offered, and Yahrzeit lamps or candles burned. Many a U. S. rabbi was shocked last week to hear that one of his fellows was bringing Kaddish into court. In Joplin, Mo. last May died Louis Bormaster, shoe merchant. To conduct the ritual prayers the family got Rabbi Harry Wolf, who had come from St. Louis to solicit funds for the Poor Orphans Home of Jerusalem. Day after Merchant Bormaster's death, Rabbi Wolf gave this up and began the prayers. Daily, for nearly seven months, Rabbi Wolf would intone: ". . . Deevroh...