Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm income has backslid-10%-to $7,625,000,000. Over Franklin Roosevelt's budgetary wails, Congress voted a $212,000,000 appropriation for direct parity payments plus the $500,000,000 earmarked for soil conservation payments; but in the election farm States elected many an anti-New Dealer...
...Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From his PWA the city has received $60,000,000 for a new sewer system, $8,000,000 (last week) for housing and $18,000,000 for that hallmark of modernity which even Moscow has but which great sprawling Chicago...
...instead of hooks and eyes. Congressman Eicher is the kind of liberal who read all the bills that came before the House. A wheelhorse in a pasture of mavericks, he worked on the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, defended the Court Plan, was the most ardent New Dealer among the Monopoly Investigation Committee's Congressmen. Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the SEC in place of Liberal Businessman John W. Hanes, resigned...
With Senator Berry as chairman of its board of directors, the Times took on a strong anti-New Deal tone. This seemed to mean that Democrat Berry, who was a loud New Dealer until he was discredited for trying to collect $1,600,000 from TVA for some questionable marble claims, was ready to make an entirely fresh start in Tennessee politics...
Voters may vote for a candidate because he is a New Dealer or anti-New Dealer, handsome, honest, a neighbor, a relative, or a fellow Bulgarian immigrant. This sometimes confuses the meaning of their votes. But when they vote directly on an issue, their meaning is not easily mistaken. Some issues on which voters of various States last week expressed themselves directly...