Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when every crackpot scheme had a chance, a little bloc of Western silver-State Senators, by vote-trading, logrolling, wheedling, threatening, thrust the 1934 Act down the unwilling throats of Messrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau Jr. Only some 2 5 mining companies profit under the Act, and half of them are controlled by Eastern capital. The largest, Sunshine Mining Co., is owned by Pacific Coast Lumbermen; eleven have headquarters in New York City, one in Boston, one in the Midwest. Except for wages, most of the silver subsidy returns to the East...