Word: edicted
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...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...
...obedience to Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's edict against Navy profanity (TIME, May 29), Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson announced that he had "stopped cussin...
Speaking for himself, after he had quoted Old Paul's edict, Handsome Adolf cried: "The President has ordained that the banner of the National Revolution from now on is to fly on State and public buildings by the side of our unforgettable and time-honored banner of the old German Reich! By this marriage the victory of the National Revolution is made outwardly visible. A 14-year battle for power has now found its symbolic conclusion. It is up to us to see that this power never again is wrested from...