Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many economists now consider the beginning of Depression II. Last February, when Moody's Index stood at 150, Franklin Roosevelt again sounded off on commodity prices, declared that with certain exceptions such as building materials they were again too low, should go up. This time, however, the Presidential edict seemed to have lost its magic. Despite renewed inflation in the form of desterilized gold and relaxed bank reserve requirements, commodity prices on June i reached the lowest point since 1934-130 on Moody's Index...
...remarks would not be complete without taking recognition of the apparent beliefs of many of you that the satisfactory solution of our problem lies in superimposing the answer from without- by Government edict, as against developing it from within-through the spirit of cooperation. On this we stand at the crossroads. . . . Government is essential to protect and develop our civilization. But let us have government by law- thou shall or shall not-not government by edict. That means a stifling regulation -the direct road to regimentation. And when we start, there is no turning back...
...York Times, which has been growing more & more aroused at the difficulty of getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven...
After his summation of the arguments, current sincethe revocation of the Edict of Nantes and before, in favor, of religious freedom, and the statement that he too favored religious freedom, the Alabama Senator said "I did join the Ku Klux Klan; I later resigned; I never re-joined," and that was all. He did not even hint at what was in his mind when he did join. He did not give the reasons which impelled him to leave the Invisible Empire. He said that he did not know what was on the records of the Klan or what...
...Leftist Government of Premier Blum, one year old this week, struck last week at rising Fascist Doriot. By edict of the Ministry of the Interior, he was removed from office as mayor of St. Denis, charged with corruption in the purchase of coal and the awarding of electrical contracts...