Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First objective of the Republicans' drive to discontinue "emergency" powers conferred upon President Roosevelt since 1933 was to defeat a bill continuing the life of Reconstruction Finance Corp. (Author: Herbert Hoover. Chairman: Jesse Jones) from next June 30 to June 30, 1941. After House Republicans had failed to beat the bill, in the Senate Michigan's Vandenberg precipitated hot debate by objecting to an increase of $20,000,000 in the capital of Disaster Loan Corp. (RFC offshoot). At length a clerk informed the sheepish Senate that it had already settled that issue when it passed...
WASHINGTON--Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Miss., chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, demanded tonight that Congressional leader unite in a drive to reduce federal expenditures at least 10 per cent. He warned that "economic confusion and chaos" may ensue if reductions are not made immediately in regular appropriations, and even more substantial cuts effected in emergency relief bills...
Instead the Independents are known for an attitude of truculent reaction and their serious efforts turn to buffoonery, as in the distasteful handling of the recent Jewish-refugees-to-Palestine drive. Constructive political theory seems to be wanting in the organization and while youth may excuse the same vice which hampers their Republican fathers, there is not even evidence of a vigorous class bias to take the place of thought...
...more gratifying to the Führer and Nazi patriots was the progress made in striping Germany with the finest highspeed road system (Reichsautobahnen) in the world. For last week any German motorist could drive from the Baltic Sea at Travemünde to Salzburg, at the foot of the Alps, without slowing for cross traffic or tooting his horn for an intersection. With almost the same ease, he could start at Cologne, near the Belgian border, zip past Berlin and wind up at the Polish frontier...
Since text books are the primary need of the universities, the plan is to make a collection of old standard works to be sent free of charge through the Smithsonian Institute which is organizing the drive throughout the country. The center of collection will be the east side door of Widener, but the committee of House representatives appointed by Phillips Brooks House will also aid collecting...