Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor the late great Bob La Follette, Frank Murphy last week beckoned Wis consin back to the New Deal.* Said...
...Federal Theatre Project was killed (Illinois' Republican Dirksen buried it on the House floor by reading some of its play titles : Lend Me Your Husband, The Mayor and the Manicurist, Up in Mabel's Room, Did Adam Sin?, A New Deal for Mary). Other white-collar projects may be continued only if "sponsored" (partly paid for) by communities...
...Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into which the Publicity Department would be converted if war came. Groundwork for this wartime Ministry, Mr. Chamberlain revealed, was being laid by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (Hoare-Laval Deal...
...House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when his boss refused to balance it, and turned into a first-line foe of the New Deal...
...lectured against New Deal finance during four years as vice president and director of American Cyanamid Corp., then in December 1937 he resigned to become principal of McGill University in Canada. His administration was successful, but not altogether happy for Lew Douglas. He was too far from the U. S. political-economic scene. Last week he was offered, and promptly accepted, a new job: president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, effective January 1. As head of the fifth largest insurance company (assets: $1,399,427,496), he will not only be able to use his genius...