Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...host of latent powers, all the broader because many are implied rather than specific. Some stem from the U. S. Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under the strictest White House orders not to talk publicly about the extent of these powers...
...scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music is written for the carillon, carillonneurs have to be their own composers and arrangers. Even the best bells jangle and hum with unwanted overtones. If the wrong overtones clash, the carillonneur's music...
Controls. For these reasons the Roosevelt Administration was less worried about market collapse than market runaways. But to deal with either, the Government has many a potent weapon which did not exist...
...peacetime U. S. businessmen did not relish many of these Government powers. But last week it appeared that the New Deal's peacetime powers were rather well suited to wartime conditions...
...paunchy, grey-haired Oriental President Lewis Henry, of Elmira, N. Y., sold his company to Nihon Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Nippon Mining Co., Ltd.). The deal: $756,700 cash; two payments of $756,700 within 30 and 60 days respectively; $4,542,000 payable by Aug. 31, 1942; $1,362,500 payable by Aug. 31, 1943. All deferred payments were guaranteed by the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., New York City, with interest at 4%. To President Henry-whose late client Jacob Sloat Fassett (onetime Congressman and Republican leader of New York's Senate) was a backer of Promoter Hunt -this...