Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins' and John Lewis' office boy." After this appeared in print Mr. Girdler hastily telephoned Mr. Taft, explained that he had only quoted a New Dealer. Apparently what roiled the steelmaster most was the way President Roosevelt had thanked him a fortnight ago after Mr. Girdler agreed to cooperate with the Mediation Board. According to Mr. Girdler, the President said to him: "I knew you were a gentleman...
...regarded as such valuable advice on how to save on taxes that Manhattan's Chemical Bank published and circulated it. Washington watched alertly to see if some of the mud kicked up by the President's tax-dodger hunt might not land in New Dealer eyes...
...General Dawes at once paid up his personal assessment of $5,200; how when the legality of the assessment was upheld; Dawes Brothers, Inc. paid up their liability of $1,027,000 six months before it was due. The author who thus gave the Daweses their due was New Dealer Jesse Holman Jones...
...three) won the respect alike of lovers and haters of the New Deal. In Washington he has been noted for two peculiarities, one literal, the other figurative: his flat feet and his level head. Last week at the time his article in Satevepost was doing a favor to Old Dealer Dawes, Jesse Jones was in Philadelphia, receiving an LL.D. from Temple University and doing a favor to the New Deal by expounding a practical man's reasons for supporting it. Said...
Since then van Zeeland has been widely heralded as Belgium's New Dealer. His financial reforms have gone through, unemployment has dropped, impoverished agriculture is now prosperous, but sober Paul van Zeeland sees himself in a larger role: leader of a new group of European powers. Hence his desire to placate Belgium's noisy Flemish minorities, hence his embarking on a quiet campaign no other Belgian Premier has dared: to make friends with The Netherlands...