Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poll tax receipt, but any white man can enter a primary by putting his name down in a book (often kept in a grocery store). This year some 20,000 Negroes were allowed to put their names down, a piece of official colorblindness far more advantageous to New Dealer Johnston than to unreconstructed "Cotton Ed" Smith...
...Pepper won. That jarred loose the Wages-&-Hours Bill, started it toward pas sage. Then Janizary Ickes publicly plumped for New Dealer Hess against Old Dealer Martin for Governor of Oregon...
...When New Dealer Maury Maverick was defeated for renomination in San Antonio, Tex. last July, the New Deal's local fences obviously needed mending. Last week Oscar Morgan Powell, 39. regional U. S. Social Security director, popular San Antonio lawyer, was called to Washington to succeed Frank Bane, resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat...
...back him visibly with their presence when he opened the Mexican Congress last week. As is their jealously guarded privilege, the Congressmen each wore a pistol. General Cardenas was in mufti, for he is the "New Deal" hero of underprivileged Mexicans. All Mexico was tense with anticipation, for New Dealer Cardenas had announced that he would read "the most important message to Congress delivered since my inauguration...
Last week's figurative green light was flashed by Josephus Daniels, now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and an admiring friend of New Dealer Cardenas. The envoy of an unnamed third State called on Ambassador Daniels, warned him that President Cardenas was almost sure to make a speech rejecting the note in which Secretary Hull recently demanded immediate compensation for the seized properties, and offered to join the U. S. Ambassador in snubbing Orator Cardenas by staying away from his speech. Mr. Daniels refused this offer, genially let it be known that, since he understands hardly a word...