Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest Lincoln Day speech free from the blatant denunciations that too often feature attacks on the New Deal, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont offered much sensible advice to his own party. And when he was through, he had made abundantly clear the reasons for its failure...
...Governor was not slow to give the New Deal credit for supplying much needed leadership. "Remember the people were hungry for leadership in those dark days of 1932 and 1933. Remember he (Roosevelt) gave it to them . . ." Aiken denounced the practice of appealing to the shibboleth of state's rights in the face of the need for government action...
Meanwhile, at Canton last week shots fired at the mayor barely missed him, the governor had to announce that he had not been assassinated, mysterious explosions took place, and apparently a Japanese-fostered coup d'état was nipped, even as Japanese bombers rained Death...
...When Governor Earle on Monday night advocated a resumption of government spending to check the depression, he showed a sense of reality that deserted him a few moments later when he condemned as "rot" Robert Jackson's charge that business had gone on a sit down strike against the government. Such a charge is rot only if we take Jackson to mean that a handful of magnates have formed a revengeful cabal to sabotage the New Deal. The National Association of Manufacturers is really an elegant institution. But Jackson was not ridiculous when he claimed that the policies of large...
Priming the pump is, as Governor Earle admitted, only a temporary expedient even though our per capita debt is less than that of France and England. Purchasing power can be permanently maintained in the absence of government spending only when prices are within the people's ability to buy. When the United States Steel Corporation gave its workers a pay rise and then raised the price of steel by more than enough to cover the rising wage bill, Ben Fairless's giant paved the way for an ultimate reduction in the number of customers for steel products...