Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think Mr. Caldwell's warm heart and sympathies ran away with him. Aren't we all rather forgetting that the typical and usual German is a sentimental cheery good soul? Let's judge a little more by the ones we know and meet and less by the ones we only read about in the papers...
...next press conference the President modified his resistance. He called one more tax revision conference, including Pat Harrison and John Hanes, but emphasized that any course they took must: i) produce no less revenue than the present laws, 2) provide some way of preventing corporate profit hoarding...
...last month. The subject: Argentine canned corned beef. To Mr. Hull the President said that the Buy American Act* would not be violated if the Navy Department were to accept the bid of Argentine Meat Producers Cooperative (a Government subsidy) to supply 48,000 Ibs. of corned beef at less than 16?^ per lb., nearly 8? under the nearest U. S. bidder, 14? under after deduction of 6? duty. To correspondents Mr. Roosevelt declared that he did not know why South American corned beef was "infinitely better" than that from the U. S. prairies, unless foreign cows are just naturally...
...President's first proposal of Reorganization (TIME, May 8) was passed promptly by the House. Less controversial, Reorganization II was promptly put to the test in the Senate. Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, prime friend of Reorganization, asked the committee in charge to report an adverse resolution on Reorganization II. It did so and Jimmy Byrnes got the resolution beaten in full Senate, thus assuring Reorganization II against Congressional veto...
...Catholic and Jewish (though not Polish) enemies. In fact, things got so "low" last January that Dr. Burckhardt, who was placed in virtual quarantine by the ruling Nazis, suddenly left, returned for only several days in March and then got the League's permission to leave more or less permanently. The League Committee of Three has not got around to considering Danzig's case now for two and a half years and it is not likely to do so this session...