Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's unofficial legal firm, Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than the Inner Circle has yet been given this Roosevelt II group - except General Hugh Johnson's accurate but awkward "White House Janizaries...
...Maine to "get in step." Solicitor General Jackson, now busy getting ready for the Monopoly Investigation, for a time was Janizary No. 3, but none of these can match in energy, facility or ubiquitousness the front man in the firm of Corcoran & Cohen. With nothing to tie him down except a general job on RFC's legal staff, he can come & go on a thousand purge missions without being unduly publicized. President Roosevelt likes him, listens to him, laughs with him, trusts him. delegates him. This makes "Tommy the Cork" (as the President calls him*) sound like a shrewd...
...most Orientals as to most Europeans a chrysanthemum is only a chrysanthemum. But there are two outstanding exceptions. In Japan, it has been the "Sacred Flower" for more than 1,000 years. No Japanese except royalty may use the full or 16-petal chrysanthemum device, but with fewer petals the chrysanthemum figures in countless Japanese designs, supposedly lucky. In Italy, however, to present a living man with a chrysanthemum is to wish him bad luck, for chrysanthemums are considered ideal flowers for graves...
...Crisis of 1914 and The Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function). Author Noble blames depression on wars, says that to blame speculators and the Exchange is to reason "that when a barometer falls it creates and precipitates the ensuing storm. . . ." Since 1935 he has retired from most Wall Street activities except lunching, has read Greek mythology and European newspapers, listened to music, cruised in chartered yachts...
Meanwhile, with no explanation except that it was following the Canadian subsidy program, AAA started Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. on a wheat-buying spree. FSCC will buy 100,000,000 bu. around prevailing prices (62?), dump it abroad for whatever it will bring. Estimated cost: $25,000,000. Although Chicago prices shot up 3? a bu. as short holders ran for cover, likely ultimate effect of the dumping program will be to depress already-depressed world prices...