Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fact was that, in spite of his vague offers of truce and invitations to Messrs. Carlisle & Willkie, so far President Roosevelt had not even hinted a willingness to compromise his power policies on any ground acceptable to private powermen. And in the opinion of Washington ob- servers he was not likely to compromise unless Recession grew even blacker. The pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants...
Most obvious defect of the bill was that it made no provision for raising the money for the payments it authorized to farmers who observed crop restrictions, despite the fact that the President last week reiterated his insistence that provisions for raising any necessary funds above the $500,000,000 now allotted for crop control be included in the bill. Another weakness of the bill was that the House Agriculture Committee was known to be drafting a bill with which it promised to be exceedingly difficult to combine the Senate's measure in conference after passing it. Third...
...needed unanimous consent to be effective, an obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first week, despite the fact that, with no farm, tax, wage & hour, reorganization or regional planning bill to consider, there was no work for its members to do. Consequence of this move on the part of Representative Church had been a burst of publicity far exceeding any he had ever received before in his four...
What this fact proves about U. S. mores is debatable. What it proves about the U. S. construction business is entirely clear. The U. S. housing boom, hopefully anticipated long before construction reached its 1934 Depression low of 50,000 units a year from a 1925 high of 950,000 units, has signally failed to materialize...
...chief ally-such in brief was the analogy from European history by which General Ugaki hoped last week to interpret to the West the faith of many Japanese that they can defeat and propagandize China into becoming their active friend, in say 50 years. To General Ugaki the fact that France, after her 1870 defeat by Germany, did not behave the same as defeated Austria, appeared immaterial...