Word: excepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...75th Congress adjourned last August, Franklin Roosevelt pointedly omitted to thank the members for their 229 days of work. They had killed his Supreme Court bill. They had left undone many things he thought they ought to have done. He called them back for a special session in November. Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress. As the end approached, Franklin Roosevelt felt kindly...
...Favor of F. D. R. in general are: 1) Negroes (84.7%) who like him on every point; 2) the Poor (75.1%) who like everything except his reorganization bill; 3) the Lower Middle Class (61.6%) who like him on his nine popular points; 4) the Upper Middle Class (52.5%) who like him on his six most popular points...
Against F. D. R. in general are the Prosperous (61.3%) who dislike him on every point except his personality, rearmament policy, international policy...
...Favor of F. D. R. in general are: 1) Factory Labor (78.7%), Farm Labor (77.6%), "Other Labor" (75.4%) who like him on every point; 2) the Unemployed (69.8%) who dislike only his re-organization bill; 3) Farmers (61.1%) who like everything except his reorganization bill and his methods; 4) Housekeepers (63.7%) who like his nine popular points; 5) White Collar Workers (59.4%) and Proprietors (56.2%) who like seven...
...away on both sides of the snowcapped, towering Andes, operates on a budget ostensibly balanced, but one which does not show its borrowings and its failure to service its sizable debt. Sweden and Finland are the only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia...