Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers, however, believed that the President genuinely meant to econo mize, was attempting it by a piece of characteristic Rooseveltian strategy. If he had cut his Relief figure below $1,500,000,000, Congressional spenders would have gobbled up the difference for pet projects not under direct White House control. Therefore, instead of making a forthright effort to balance the Budget by reduced appropriation or increased taxes, the President was deliberately setting up a deficit in order to scare Congressmen out of further spending. When Congress had adjourned he could set about economy by spending less than he was authorized...
...engrossed copy of the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill sent to the President for signing, it was discovered last week that a nodding clerk had substituted an "are" for an "or." Concluding that the phrase still made sense, the Bill's Congressional handlers advised the President against sending it back to Congress for correction, urged him to sign it as was. This week he did, and nominated a seven-man National Coal Commission to administer...
While he has been carrying the war to Bridges in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Bridges has been in Seattle, carrying the war to Beck. Around San Francisco Bay they joined battle for control of the Warehousemen's Union. By A.F. of L. orders Teamsters were told to ignore I.L.A. pickets at warehouses. The Oakland Teamsters Local refused to do so fortnight ago and its officers were ousted by orders from above...
...Joaquin Valley. Fortnight ago the Agricultural Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph P. Ryan has no control over I.L.A. Its leadership there belongs to Harry Bridges who is an ally of the C.I.O. Thus the Stockton strike was an attempt of Radical Harry Bridges to extend his labor leadership back from San Francisco...
Just what form such control would take is not definite. Loyalist sources tell that German advances have been made, proposing secession from the rest of Spain, probably to result in a state under German protection. The character of the defenders makes it unlikely that anything short of annihilation will bring them to terms. It seems that something of this sort will be the result, with some degree of German influence a surety. This will present a situation that will require strong action on the part of the British. It is an opportunity to use Briain's sea power...