Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revision to aid recovery is an idea of Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee. (Most correspondents considered this camouflage to cover a shift by the President away from the viewpoint of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau who, with Under Secretary John Hanes, were the first oracles of revision-for-Recovery...
...idea of "election: to valances should, in the opinion of the Committee, supersede the traditional idea of "promotion...
...class of persons, and thus actually would not be a "class" dance--in the usual sense--at all. Miscellaneous objections to the unwieldiness of the affair, the absence of spirit except of the "colossal" sort, the danger of unpleasant notoriety, are heard mainly from those basically opposed to the idea as a whole...
...Parliament and obtained dictatorial powers to permit him to act secretly and promptly to forestall any further Nazi or Fascist moves. He was expected to put France on a virtual wartime footing, to call up extra men to the colors, to speed arms production. The French toyed with the idea of building up a strong Eastern European entente of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...this year Dae, the livest radio character in France, is starting a variation of the treasure-hunt idea, in which he drops token coins in hiding places around Paris, directs listeners to them somewhat as Uncle Don tells U. S. youngsters where the family has hidden their birthday presents...