Word: marche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to confirm the obvious fact that he was now mixing silver and oil. For the wording of his statement made it perfectly clear that he had withdrawn his subsidy in retaliation for President Cárdenas' seizure of $400,000,000 worth of foreign oil investments (TIME, March 28). The action had been taken, said the Secretary, "in view of the decision of the Government of the United States to re-examine certain of its financial and commercial relationships with Mexico." The "good neighbor policy" had given way to silver-dollar diplomacy...
...Washington, an hour and a half after Chairman Morgan thus defied the third and final dead line set by the President for withdrawing or supporting his public charges against his fellow directors, Harcourt Morgan and David Eli Lilienthal (TIME, March 28), a band of interested reporters crowded noisily into the President's circular office for their regular White House press conference. When they had lined up around his desk, Franklin Roosevelt began to read a letter he had just dispatched to Chairman Morgan...
...result of the hearings held before me on March 11, 18, and 21, 1938, I regret to inform you that I feel obliged to remove, and do hereby remove you as member and chairman of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority. This removal is to become effective as and from March...
...Gasque assaulted the Treasury with no less than nine new bills. But last week found Mr. Gasque bedded in Walter Reed Hospital with a reported heart attack and Mr. Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders Bankhead and Rayburn, whose orders from the White House might have read: "Take the Rankin Bill; maybe...
...Hoover three weeks ago chatted amiably with Poland's white-haired President Ignacy Moscicki, Army Dictator Smigly-Rydz and Premier Felician Slawoj Skladkowski. A week after his visit. Hosts Moscicki, Smigly-Rydz and Skladkowski made their little neighbor, Lithuania, knuckle under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen. From there he continued by plane for England to catch the Normandie...