Word: ending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party harmony, he plans no reform legislation at Session III of the 76th Congress, will actively support none. He has dumped taxes in the Congressional lap; almost daily pinches budget appropriations for New Deal agencies, slashes down works, relief, spending ideas. His hope: a short, sweet session that will end in a burst of party harmony...
...that end, all stops are out on the appeasement pipe-organ, and Chief Organist Stephen T. Early has orders to stomp on the bass. Time was when Virginia's old fireball, Carter Glass, would as soon enter the White House as a poolroom; likewise, Utah's William H. (I'm Against It) King, and many another. Now these conservatives are smiled on, their counsel taken, their birthdays and patronage remembered...
Tick-timed, effectively voiced, the Dewey speech bettered his flying start. Yet at week's end, after carefully considering everything, wise oldsters of the Republican National Committee definitely ticketed young Mr. Dewey for the No. 2 spot in the 1940 G. O. P. race. General (and damning) opinion was: Tom Dewey has no chance for the Presidency, but will make the best Vice Presidential nominee either party has had since Theodore Roosevelt...
...were surprised to find that the biggest question was: What will Herbert Hoover do? General agreement was that at next year's convention he will control at least 200 of the 1,000 delegates. Of course the Republicans agreed that 1940 would see the New Deal's end. But general agreement, not only in Washington D. C., but in Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, etc., was that, with stage set, audience waiting, superspectacle prepared-with a fine cast of characters, a wonderful story, a happy ending-the star performer was poison at the box office...
...unauthorized strike must end completely. Once we accomplish that, the enemies of our union will no longer be able to make the charge that the U. A. W.C. I. O. is irresponsible. . . . Hasty strike votes, taken before the grievance machinery has been exhausted, may involve the local union in a course that may force it to strike, whether a strike is advisable or not. . . . There is no better way to wreck a local union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns...