Word: edict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragged into months, months into a year. Last week when it came time for the general to take a vacation his score stood: 476 codes made, 262 to go. But the hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson and flew west...
Having made this edict to end all code-making in 30 days, he announced that he had written the President that as soon as code making was done NRA would cease to be a one-man job and should be administered by a non-partisan commission. Then, lest the public entertain any premature hopes of his early retirement, he added...
...Angriest was Publisher Ogden Reid's arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Here is . . . the first time that the President has publicly given support to the 'Smear America' campaign in which so many of his aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt...
...argued the big sugar growers of the world to agree to world restriction. He got his cartel working just as Depression hit the world at large. When Cuba could stand no more Depression Machado was ousted. Last week was Chadbourne's turn. President Grau San Martin issued an edict ousting him from the presidency of National Sugar Exporting Corp., keystone of the Chadbourne sugar cartel...
...light of a changing economic situation. It will attempt to assay the trend of events, and to discuss some of the old economic principals in relation to the new social problems; whether the law of supply and demand is defunct; the extent to which prices increased by edict may result in increased purchasing power and a return to prosperity; and the feasibility of national planning...