Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National Racket Administration]. "Premier General Johnson - Wall Street partner of Barney Baruch, the broker- has declared a five-week campaign to put across the five-year plan of Premier Stalin of Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call him out to lead the retail branch of racketeering. "In some countries the orgies of an NRA put through PDQ might end in TNT. "President Roosevelt better call a special session to repeal this...
...Chiseling' may be a slang word but chiseling is the chief threat to this movement. From your good town of St. Louis there came to my desk the other day a drawing of a turkey buzzard-a sickly opposite of the blue hawk. In his loathsome talons is a chisel. . . . Nothing more apt has come to this administration...
Sirs: Now that the NRA bird, eagle or hawk (TIME, July 31) spreads its protective wings over U. S. workers, household servants excepted, many thousands of us (I am not acquainted with the statistics in regard to the number of persons employed in domestic service) shall continue to work from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. or later when guests are entertained, often on 24-hour duly when there are children or others who cannot be left alone, with one weekly day off-after the work is done and dinner prepared -for "wages" which range from $15 per week...
Neville Chamberlain, the stooped, hawk-nosed and usually dour Chancellor of the British Exchequer, eased tension by declaring with a smile, "Let us not blame anybody. Let us say that circumstances beyond our control wrecked things." Mr. Chamberlain then warned that Great Britain, until last year a so-called "free trade" country, is still in the stage of "constructing tariff walls," ready to take swift reprisal against states which raise theirs higher against British goods...
...British Government sold in Manhattan an attractive issue of 51% "gold dollar" bonds, never dreaming that under the next Democratic President of the U. S., all "gold clauses" in U. S. securities would be invalidated. Last week $136,333,500 of this British issue was still outstanding and stooped, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the British Exchequer Neville Chamberlain had a smart idea...