Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even down here in the heart of the Sugar Bowl we know that you've just got to have nice, sour lemons to make good lemonade. Give Mr. Harper his lump sugar, but continue making the rest a little on the tart side for us good-natured fellows...
...76th Congress and the 32nd President last week really got to grips once more and both were sore-almost as sore as they were two years ago over the Supreme Court. What they fought about this time was the bill to extend the President's power over money, but what they were principally sore at was each other...
...hard enough to defend the Senate's stand against the President's dollar power. Senator Townsend opened for the Republicans and then Senator Vandenberg asked all factions, who were agreed on the Stabilization Fund's desirability, to pass a separate resolution to preserve it. This suggestion got nowhere. But it and other speeches took up time. In reply to Mr. Roosevelt's outburst at Hyde Park, Mr. Vandenberg said: "I wonder if our distinguished Executive realized precisely what he was saying . . . that when Congress controls money, Wall Street controls...
...prearrangement with the Republicans, Democrat Tydings of Maryland, whom Franklin Roosevelt tried to "purge" last year, got the floor. The galleries were packed. Majority Leader Barkley's jaw muscles twitched in angry impotence. Sweetly relishing his revenge, Senator Tydings cried: "Shall we, now that the time limit is expiring, recapture the right vested in the Congress by the Constitution to fix the value of the nation's money? Or shall we give up that power in advance, without an emergency, to the President of the United States, and deprive ourselves of the power, in case of future need...
...again going to have his way by simply threatening to fight. That was not the situation, however, reflected to the outside world by the German propaganda machine. A purported Hitler speech to a purported "War Council" that the Führer hastily appointed "leaked" through the Reichswehr and somehow got into the hands of French Rightist Deputy Henri de Kerillis, who also happens to be editor of L'Epoque...