Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consequences. Such questions did not necessarily indicate that the Court will decide against the Government. In this case, however, they brought little or no direct answer from the Government except that Congress under the Constitution has power to regulate the value of money, hence has an implied power to cancel gold clauses. But consequences followed from the mere asking of questions...
...bank in 1927 when Amadeo Peter Giannini, great imperialist among California's bankers, took it into his mighty chain. Today Legionary Belgrano is a vice president of Giannini's Bank of America, president of the Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., a financier by trade. A quick thinker, direct in action, a good organizer, the new national commander set out to fulfill the program given him by the Legion at Miami. That program included getting Congress to appropriate money to develop Soap Lake, Wash., to break off diplomatic relations with Russia, to ratify the Child Labor Amendment, to provide...
...into every state: New York, $221,000,000; Pennsylvania, $156,000,000; Illinois, $141,000,000; Missouri, $61,000,000; Georgia, $32,000,000; Maine, $12,000,000; Nevada, $1,771,846. According to the Legion, businessmen in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Georgia, Maine, Nevada would profit in direct ratio to the spendings of Legionaries in their States. The mathematical argument for the Bonus is less simple. In 1924 Congress figured that veterans were entitled to $1 a day extra for service in the U. S., $1.25 overseas. Then Congress pretended that the whole sum had been set aside...
...writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing in disgust, was recalled to direct the picture. When Paramount finally got down to work, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was made in 88 working days, mostly on location within 50 miles of Hollywood. Four thousand actors performed in it at one time or another. It cost about...
When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors...