Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the President is speaking to alumni at the annual Harvard Club dinner in New York tomorrow evening, his predecessor will be on his way to New Haven where he will address Yale undergraduates Friday on "The Spirit of Distrust...
With this hope they sat down to draft a platform expounding their economic ideas for recovery. For three days in smoke-filled rooms, under the placating influence of Owen D. Young, they worked to disguise their instinctive distrust of the Roosevelt Administration in language that would promote amity and cooperation. Chief points in their 5,000-word platform...
Reason for the Administration's distrust of the Nye investigation was that the Government understood well enough the true facts about the U. S. munitions industry. Not only is it small fry compared to the European arms industries, but the men who run it are typical U. S. businessmen who abhor, in typical U. S. fashion, the idea of fomenting war for profit. The big arms makers of Europe may not be above such skullduggery, but up to last week Senator Nye's committee had produced no shred of evidence to prove that U. S. arms makers had stooped...
Second in seniority upon the bench is Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds. Him the New Dealers eye with even greater distrust. He was Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General and that President excused him from his Cabinet by appointing him to the Supreme Court in 1914. He has the reputation of doing less work than any other member of the court, of being crustier than most. New Dealers would hate to see him write an opinion on their unemployment insurance...
Since the opening days of the current Administration, Roosevelt has pursued a policy so radical in its implications that it has antagonized the leading business interests of the country and has precluded cooperation between Washington and Wall Street. In this mutual antipathy and distrust, many economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible...