Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What passed between Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Ford, no man present would say for quotation. It was clear, however, that the meeting was not so historic as to have caused any great rapprochement between Messrs. Ford & Roosevelt. In fact, it seemed to have had no point at all. When Mr. Ford emerged at 2:55 p. m., he b-r-r-d gently at hungry newshawks and hopped into the Lincoln. Cried a reporter: "Did you have a pleasant visit?" Said Mr. Ford: "Sure...
Said Mr. Eccles, an original proponent of the spending program: "Mr. Ford didn't clash with me. I guess he said he didn't agree, and shook his head in dissent." Said Hall Roosevelt: "There was nothing that smacked of commercialism in any way. ... In fact, it reminded me very much of a family conversation at Wayside...
...obtained a $20,000 bribe for supporting legislation favorable to Pennsylvania brewers. Although Mr. Margiotti solemnly declared that the voters should not think for a moment that his old friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor could hardly overlook the fact that the accused were his principal backers for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Whereupon he summoned the accuser to the brownstone executive mansion in Harrisburg, ordered Mr. Margiotti to shortcut his projected grand jury investigation and dump all the evidence in the Governor's ample lap. When the indignant Attorney...
Soon developed was the fact that in some of its vital cases NLRB had withheld a right which was now declared to be essential. NLRB Counsel Charles Fahy asked the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for time to correct the Board's procedure and recent order against Republic Steel Corp. Active Mr. Wood, who also represents Ford Motor Co., another NLRB defendant, asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to require testimony whether the three NLRB members had themselves read and digested the 2,000,000 words of Ford testimony taken by subordinates; whether, before the finding was issued...
...Japanese casualties at twelve pursuit planes, eight bombers. Later, back in Shanghai, a Japanese communique put the Chinese losses at 51 planes, said only two of the Mikado's raiding craft had failed to return. Although U. S. newsmen raised eyebrows over both sides' claims, one fact they accepted as obvious: the long inactive Chinese air force, once destroyed, once reorganized, composed of Russian, Italian, French, German, American, British and Chinese aircraft and men, had again been revitalized. That the Japanese might have difficulty maintaining their aerial superiority was indicated by the arrival via British-controlled Hong Kong...