Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern bankers and investment trusts bought, a large block of stock in Cliffs Corp., the holding company superimposed on the iron company. The sellers were supposed to have been Cleveland's rich & pious Mathers, who have dominated the company since it was founded in 1850 by a direct descendant of Puritan Richard Mather.* Only one of the six buyers was identified: Adams Express, which is not an express company at all but an investment trust. Simultaneously it was learned that Cleveland-Cliffs was dickering with Hayden. Stone & Co. for some financing by which it might pay off a staggering...
Shot 1?He had had no direct dealings with the tainted money of Dwight Morrow because all arrangements were made through a third party...
...left undefined) the President should at once proclaim its existence, forbid shipment of "arms, ammunition & implements of war" (also undefined) to each & every belligerent. To enforce that embargo U. S. munitioneers were to be licensed by a National Munitions Control Board, U. S. ships forbidden to carry munitions direct to belligerent ports, or to neutral ports for transshipment. At his discretion the President could also forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order to the President. That night, gravely dismayed, President Roosevelt summoned Secretary...
...Railroad Pension Bill replacing the act declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The Government will pay direct pensions up to $120 a month by means of a 7% tax on railroad payrolls, half to be paid by the carriers and half by the employes...
...guarantee farmers 12? and still avoid having the Government acquire their surplus at higher than market prices, the Government would 1) lend only 9? so that the farmers would get more by selling their product than by borrowing on it from the Government, and 2) pay farmers a direct subsidy to make up the difference between the average market price from September to January and 12?. The subsidy would be paid only to farmers signed up for AAA's cotton restriction contracts...