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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahoney tried to reassure them that, so far as he was concerned, the inquiry would be no witch hunt, no kangaroo court. Said he: "I think most people, regardless of their economic views, realize that we have gone into a new era and that we have to find some new rules. But I think they want to go about the job without resorting to punitive tactics. . . . It is a question whether the educated opinion of the American people can preserve democracy in Government and business...
...Lehman candidacy also sidetracked any ambitions Laborite Hillman might have had, since Democrats would find it inexpedient to nominate two Jews for the Senate. It soon appeared, moreover, that Governor Lehman's ambitions might extend over a front wider than the Senate Chamber. Almost immediately after he announced his candidacy, his loyal Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., also without consulting party leaders in Washington, announced his candidacy for Governor. And two days later, Candidate Lehman, speaking before 300 welfare officials at a conference at Saranac Inn, sounded a distinctly candid note by suggesting a purging of swollen Relief...
Apple-cheeked Premier Thomas Dufferin Pattullo had journeyed to Washington to chat with President Roosevelt about his cherished dream of a road to Alaska. Returning to find his newly finished post office occupied by a noisy rabble, he failed to impress them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
...German Government has taken note with great interest that the Swiss Government has been successful in its efforts to free itself of obligations that were indeed liable to endanger its neutrality. . . . The Swiss Government can therefore be assured that its determination to remain neutral at all times will find a corresponding determination on the part of the German Government to acknowledge and respect this neutrality," wrote Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano replied in almost identical terms...
...catalogue of Gauguin's prints, believes that as Gauguin's rich paintings resemble tapestry, his woodcuts resemble murals. To prove it he made a photographic enlargement of Gauguin's biggest woodcut, dramatized his thesis that Gauguin was a natural muralist who could not find, either in stuffy Parisian houses or South Sea huts, walls to work upon...