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...colleagues care whether I come back or not. But I am prepared to say now that if I have to continue to look at the Senator from Louisiana every day, if I have to hear him speak three or four times a day ... I think it would be a Godsend to me if in some way I got out of the Senate...
...Navy Department's stucco building on the Mall, proceeded to "dope" the conference for U. S. newshawks twice a day. Even during the long periods ot closed sessions, Lord Riddell's "unofficial" well of information, always extremely accurate, never went dry. His presence was a Godsend to correspondents who had to turn out daily conference stories whether the sessions were closed or open. That the world was flooded with press stories which did Great Britain's standing no harm seemed, at the time, a cheap price to pay for such daily assistance from the publishing peer...
...regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober-sided a financier as William Aspinwall. Promoter Aspinwall got his railroad charter from the New York Legislature but there is no record of his visiting Panama during the construction of the line. The California gold rush was a godsend to him, and until the Union Pacific was completed in 1869. Aspinwall had the coast-to-coast carrying service in his fist. In 1934 Great-Uncle William might have had some difficulty reconciling his profitable business to the Social Democratic ideas of Grandnephew Franklin...
...triple Godsend to John Llewellyn Lewis. First it enabled him to "organize" coal fields that had not been unionized, to increase the members of his United Mine Workers from 300,000 to 650,000 in a few months. Second, NRA provided a new force to compel coal operators to raise wages and shorten hours -as General Johnson did fortnight ago to prevent a strike in the soft coal fields. Last week, as a third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis...
Buyers' Strike? Individual retailers (but not their trade associations) began to have misgivings. Perhaps price-fixing was not the Godsend they believed. Though it was estimated that September dollar sales were 8% to 10% above a year ago, the rise was more than accounted for by increased prices-proof that the volume of trade was off. Merchants talked nervously of a Buyers' Strike. Consumers feared that retailers would use the code as an excuse for general price-upping, particularly in communities where competition was slack. The NRA had been used as an excuse before. In July the price...