Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was painful enough to Mr. Morgenthau, but doubtless less painful than the discussion of raising the debt limit. Loyal as he is to Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau would like by this time to see the end of the Government's perennial deficit and mounting debt. Before the House committee he declared his belief that a $50,000,000,000 debt would be perfectly safe. Before the Senate committee he cited the continued demand for U. S. bonds as proof that the Federal credit has not been undermined. Senator Glass rasped, "You have maneuvered the damn thing to where...
...honest showdown, not only Vice President Garner and influential Senators like South Carolina's Byrnes would be found at Pat Harrison's side, but perhaps even loyal Chairman Bob Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. At week's end Bob Doughton joined Pat Harrison in a joint letter to Mr. Morgenthau which could be construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise...
...your hands, not ours, is the peace which Spain needs to recover and to end the bloody war which is weakening it and placing it at the service of invaders. Choose! If you offer us peace you will find generous Spanish hearts. If you continue to make war against us and against yourselves you will meet opposition worthy of the mettle of our combatants, strong and implacable as the steel of our bayonets. Either peace for Spain or a fight to the death! We are ready for either. We are independent and free Spaniards. We have not on our conscience...
...week's end the Thakore Saheb finally made a move. He released Gandhi's wife from jail and told her: "You should be with Gandhi all the time he is in Rajkot." Answered Mrs. Gandhi: "Since you ask me, I will go and inquire of Gandhi what he would have me do." The Mahatma quickly sent her back to jail...
...school. Last week 10,000 superintendents, principals and professors heard democracy discussed from every angle by 700-odd speakers at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Cleveland. All this oratory proved too much even for the superintendents. By week's end they had found something more amusing to talk about: a little book called The Saber-Tooth Curriculum-which, discovered on display in the exhibitors' hall, wowed the convention...