Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State he had indeed approved a $90 million credit to Poland, at a time when his law firm was serving as counsel to a Polish supply mission...
...said of the plan: "The sooner it is enacted . . . the more soundly the nation can sleep at night." But wakeful Winchell repeated the cry of "Wall Street," and told his vast radio audience: "Demand that your Congressman send you the cross-examinations of Secretary Forrestal when his Wall Street firm was under investigation...
Winchell's reference to an investigation of Forrestal's old Wall Street firm concerned a Senate committee hearing in 1933 on financial trading. Forrestal pointed out: "I stated that the applicable tax laws of the U.S. and Canada had led me to make" an investment in 1929 in a Canadian company. In effect, he had found a way to postpone tax payments. That same year (1929), said Forrestal, he had paid upwards of $300,000 in federal and New York State taxes. It was his behavior as a friendly witness in the Senate hearing which prompted Roosevelt...
Only in Great Britain did opinion hold firm that the U.S. was not softening its policy. Yet even in Britain the sense of urgency was diminishing. The North Atlantic Alliance had official backing, but the more difficult problems of Western Union had stopped progress toward that "grand design...
...came to power, Wurm quickly became an outspoken defender of his church. So strong was his position that in 1934, after he had repeatedly criticized the Nazi regime, he was placed under only a mild house arrest. But the farmers and craftsmen of Württemberg, who knew his firm handshake and his practice of answering his own doorbell, staged an angry demonstration, demanding that Bishop Wurm be released. He was. Although he continued his fight against the Nazis, they never bothered him again...