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This seemingly fruitless meeting was not, however, the beginning or the end of the President's conferences last week with and about Business. He also lunched with Bernard M. Baruch, also conferred with three utility executives, John Carpenter of Texas Power and Light, A. B. West of Nevada-California Electric, Daniel C. Green of Central & South West Utilities. But the most important conference of his week waited till one noon when two taxis pulled up at the White House spilling out as oddly-assorted a group of U. S. figures as ever called upon a President...
...House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt had called it into extraordinary session to pass...
...Commissar Yakovleva, 52, is an Old Bolshevik, a veteran of the bloody fruitless days of 1905, who was exiled to Siberia under the Tsar. After the 1917 revolution she did valiant service in the ruthless Cheka, the pre-Ogpu secret police, gradually rose to be Vice Commissar for Education and finally Russia's first and only female Finance Commissar...
...this line has been the cause of dispute for many years. Under a treaty signed in 1894, the Government of Spain was called in to arbitrate. The decision awarded in 1906 was rejected by Nicaragua because of "irregularities in procedure." A conference in Washington in 1918 was equally fruitless...
...those who want to spend money in saving democracy. Spain is a poor place to do it. Many long and fruitless arguments have been waged as to whether the left-loyalists or right-rebels are less democratic, and the only tenable answer is that both are just about as distant from democracy as possible...