Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicate job of Ambassador to Europe's newest Dictator Francisco Franco of Spain, the President named Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, *63, of Richmond, Va., urbane careerman whose first consulate 29 years ago was in Zanzibar, and who since 1933 has been trying, as Ambassador, to keep Argentina friendly despite a U. S. embargo on Argentine beef...
...Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp. said: "Let us as a people keep our heads. Let us guard particularly against anybody sweeping us into war hysteria. For war, more than anything else, holds danger of actual dictatorship for America...
...Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified by saying "prior to the completion of the Panama Canal," but today's admirals as good students of Alfred Mahan believe in one fleet always together, even with the Canal...
...Minority Leader Martin took advantage of the week's lull in foreign excitement to bring out a twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received...
...forum on public spending. In view of the intricacy of the subject and the diversity of the views expressed at the meeting, Messrs. Bernstein and Fels have done a fairly creditable job. The chief criticism to make of their report in the confusing way in which the two writers keep shifting back and forth between straight narrative and editorial comment, so that the reader never knows when to expect the words of Sweezy, Harris, or Gilbert, and when mere back-seat driving by the rapporteurs...