Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Securities & Exchange Commission on reorganization and protective committees. This fertile field for Roosevelt reform is still unfinished business so far as New Deal securities legislation is concerned. A 133-page document, crammed with facts, figures and juicy dialog gleaned from SEC's hearings last year, the report dealt only with municipal securities. Other reports on railroad, real estate, industrial and foreign protective committees will soon follow, accompanied by recommendations for regulatory legislation...
...inflationists. It should, at least, be blocked in the Senate, although the possible machinations of a wearisome filibuster by a farmer-inflation bloc presents a likely obstacle. The President, this election year, will not be able to escape with a shrewd sleight-of-hand measure such as he dealt the silverites and inflationists in the past few years. Any playing or temporizing with inflation at the present time would be disastrous for him personally...
...section of the world should have any influence over the discussions of an international congregation. Citizens of democratic countries are becoming increasingly huffy and high-handed with dictatorial governments like Fascism and Naziism, but to what end? Autocracies, disagreeable as they may seem to a liberal people, must be dealt with. We who have been born and bred in democratic traditions are wont to treat European dictatorships like provisional governments merely waiting for the day of democratic revelation...
...gold standard is dead and has been relegated for a long period to purgatory. We have no sinking fund except the balance of last year's surplus. We have gradually increased our taxation, and we have dealt with the American debt liability in a manner which no one would have tolerated in the years for which I was responsible. I was the last orthodox Chancellor of the Victorian epoch. . . . I feel I am entitled to ask the House to regard me as the last of the Mohicans...
...dissenting ides ought to be expressed concerning your report and editorial which dealt with Government as a field of concentration...