Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zenith as a public servant: he issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the spy-hunting Secret Service, floated four Liberty Loans, the Fourth being the biggest of all bond issues (23,000,000 subscriptions totaling $6,989,047,000), served as Director General of all U. S. railroads after Wilson took them over by proclamation...
...question: what would Franklin Roosevelt do now about his purge of the Democratic Party? Especially, what would he do about Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, on whom Roosevelt lieutenants had sicked as an opponent in next month's primary Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, Georgia's onetime Attorney General, now a Roosevelt-appointed U. S. District Attorney...
...juicy job last week. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis persuaded Ohio's Democratic Senator Vic Donahey, chairman of the Congressional committee which is exploring TVA, that their job is 85% accounting and auditing; that though twelve experts from the U. S. Comptroller General's office are now digging through TVA's books, investigation of one Government agency by another would not satisfy the U. S. public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such an inspection. None of them had any private...
...Washington to ask President Roosevelt for more money for the committee, so that it can audit TVA thoroughly itself. Senator Donahey's own checker-upper will be W. O. Heffernan, now the committee's secretary, long a topflight aide of such employers as General Motors, National Cash Register, the British Treasury...
When Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls taunted the defense with their failure to put Daughter Barbara on the stand as promised, Defense Attorney Clyde Chapman replied that Barbara was "moronic," that her testimony would "befog the issue...