Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago when inflation threatened, the helm was shifted far to starboard. Last autumn, warned of a threatened deflation, the Administration put it hard to port. While his listeners were trying to calculate what, if anything, all this meant in terms of political Right & Left, the President made his main point: that to regard a shift of the helm as a shift of policy was a fundamental error-of which reporters are often guilty because it makes a story...
When unruffled Dave Lilienthal turned up in Washington himself last week, he refused to discuss the question of a TVA investigation and hinted that a conciliator would probably have come to the same conclusion about the marble claims as the commission. But his main job was to hand out to reporters a statement containing his own formula for dealing with Mr. Willkie and ending TVA's war with the private utilities. In it, after dexterously shifting blame for the trouble to litigation instituted by the utilitymen themselves, he proposed that the TVA should negotiate for the purchase of private...
Yagoda, Nothing could distract the main interest from prisoner No. 1, Henry Yagoda, who not only was chief power of the Stalin Secret Political Police in Russia from 1920 to 1936, but according to the pro-Soviet British Historians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, was once "Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence Department of the U. S. S. R. for the United States...
Stalin, it came out last week, was escorted by Yagoda from Moscow to Leningrad to investigate Kirov's murder, now confessed to have been the work of Escort Yagoda & accomplices whose confessed main objective was to kill Stalin. Yagoda always personally commanded in the Red Square the Secret Police guards of Stalin and other Soviet leaders when reviewing parades atop the Tomb of Lenin. Thus Yagoda for years was the one man in Russia who could certainly have killed Stalin. Also Yagoda, as head of the secret police, was better able than any other Russian to frame someone else...
...cannot be turned aside by shorts may stay and see the main feature immediately. He will not get any money back, but he will not have to sit through the B picture...