Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>At session-end of the last Congress, leaders in both parties pledged to stay in Washington to counsel with the President. To all but one Mr. Roosevelt said in effect: Go on home if you want. Airplanes are always handy. But to Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., Republican leader...
If his foes hoped to nail his political hide to that barn door, they reckoned without the old Tennessean. To Chicago he went last week with figures in his fist and proceeded to belabor the short-winded old Smoot-Hawley protective tariff scheme, which since 1930 (when it threw up...
>Decided flatly (but privately) not to recall from Russia U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, but left the matter on a 24-hour basis. Franklin Roosevelt firmly believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh...
The responsibility for this must be squarely laid at the door of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, one of our most arbitrary and unsavory unions. Its leaders are a colorful crew, to say the least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three...
Unions like this one do more than wreak havoc in their own particular industries; they besmirch the name of the entire labor movement. If allowed to go on as they are now, they will ultimately work their own destruction, but in the debacle they may ruin the drama as an...