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...Moley-Thomas bill required the President to do nothing, but it gave him enough power to knock the dollar down to 50? or less if he sees fit. Assuming that he uses up to the hilt all the authority Congress is about to vote him, the following things will occur...
...appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department of Justice would enforce the 18th Amendment up to the hilt until the repeal resolution is duly ratified...
...American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people to pay off the Bonus (see p. 8). Declared the President...
During the trial, which ended last week, the prosecutor produced no evidence linking Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza to the attempted crime but proved up to the hilt that she has often voiced antagonism to President Machado. That was enough for the court martial. It sentenced all the accused to 14 years penal servitude each...
Sportsman William Henry Vander-"hilt, whose four-in-hand coach was used as a model for the current edition of Christmas seals of the National Tuberculosis Association (TIME, Dec. 7). complained because the artist placed the driver on the left side of the box instead of the right...