Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these days of tension ... we must all stand together . . . fulfill our obligations to the nation, regardless of political or partisan considerations," Franklin Roosevelt wrote last week, canceling a political engagement and making Republicans wonder how far non-political national unity is expected to go...
...many a New Dealer was last week expressed by Kenneth G. Crawford, who wrote in the Nation: "Is the Roosevelt Administration neutral? Certainly not. Is there any chance of the U. S. to stay out of another world war? Practically none. Will the Rooseveit program of liberal reform go on in the event of a general war? It will not. . . . Would the outbreak of a war mean a third term for President Roosevelt? Probably...
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With five minutes to go the Exchange governors took a hurried, panicky vote. The acting chairman was in his balcony above the Exchange floor and worried dealers were waiting for the gong to begin trading. (Noble had said it was not to ring until he gave the word.) Four minutes before 10 o'clock the word came: The Exchange had been closed. It did not reopen until November 28 (under restrictions not entirely removed until April 1, 1915). By that time the panic had passed, the New Federal Reserve act was in effect...
...Church should . . . strive to galvanize its membership into action." Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis J. McConnell suggested that the Church set "its own economic house in order," declared: "It is nothing short of a scandal to find Churches standing out against labor unions on the plea that all Church earnings go to benevolent causes...