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Illinois's New Dealing Kent Keller proposed to retitle Mr. Walter's measure: "The lawyers' emergency relief bill to end unemployment in the legal profession and for no other purpose." The independent Brookings Institution in Washington found that the bill ". . . would seriously retard and hamper the processes of government . . . leave the administration of a statute open to obstructive and dilatory tactics . . . [be] contrary to our basic concepts of the judicial process . . . demoralizing Government departments, destroying their efficiency, delaying the transaction of Government business to an excessive and intolerable degree, and greatly enhancing the cost of government...
...probable," stated Professor Cross, "that the Germans will extend their operations to Sweden very shortly. This action should aid, rather than hamper, the democracies, however, since they will be able to campaign in Scandinavia with total disregard of political frontiers and the British chances of cutting off all ore shipments to Germany from the Kiruna field will be measurably improved...
...that event," he added, "the Italian fleet could provide some marine diversion in case of a thrust through Hungary into Rumania, and could hamper the shipment of supplies to the Weygand forces in Asia Minor...
...Spaniards dickered. Once France broke off negotiations, said that ungrateful Spain did not realize the extent of her concessions. Spain retaliated by closing her border to what little trade had been allowed to cross the French frontier. The personable Nazi traders in Madrid did all they could to hamper the talks...
...Expanding West Coast shipyards are dependent upon steel plates coming through the Panama Canal and, in the event that the canal was rendered unusable by sabotage, it would hamper shipbuilding and repairs on the West Coast...