Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the U. S. Government was by way of becoming the biggest grocer of all time. Youngish (39) former cotton-bag-maker Milo Randolph Perkins, head of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, announced immediate expansion of the New Deal's orange-&-blue food stamp plan to Birmingham, Des Moines, Shawnee, Okla...
...Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
...meals in a row, and eggs may be available only two or three days a week. There are not only few Germans and Italians in Spain; there are few foreigners of any country. The Italians and Germans Correspondent Longmire saw looked like harried businessmen trying to put across some deal, and the only Italian officer in uniform he saw annoyed the natives by driving too fast...
...months has been short, square-faced, blue-eyed Walter Nash. Once a bookseller in the English Midlands, he migrated to New Zealand 30 years ago. Last week he was back in the country of his birth representing his adopted country in a complicated and-for New Zealand-crucial financial deal...
Before the radio industry had time to cross its fingers over the President's intentions, he acted. Once more Franklin Roosevelt went outside FCC to pick a chairman. Like Frank McNinch, 41-year-old James Lawrence Fly made his name with the New Deal program. TVA's general counsel since 1937, able Jim Fly won TVA's two major tilts in the Supreme Court. A tall, quiet, hard-working Texan who graduated from Annapolis and spent three years in the Navy before loping through Harvard Law School in two years, Lawyer Fly is a New Dealer...