Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During last week's busy days-while he was preparing for the opening of the first Congress in which his supporters may not have clear sailing-Franklin Delano Roosevelt paused to attend to a seemingly small matter. He picked George MacDonald, rich public utilitarian of Manhattan, to head a committee to distribute 3,000,000 bus. of surplus U. S. wheat to non-combatants in Spain. Giving wheat to Spaniards of both sides impartially amounts to friendly aid to Spanish Loyalists, who need bread far worse than Generalissimo Franco's side. As such it is another gesture...
...last resolved by Vice President Garner and Jim Farley: five New Yorkers in the Cabinet would really be too many, therefore the President must pass over Solicitor-General Bob Jackson. Mr. Garner's thorough approval of Michigan's rufous Governor-reject Frank Murphy settled the matter. With that approval, the man-who-was-soft-on-sit-down-strikers could be confirmed without trouble. So Mr. Murphy packed up in Lansing, took his brother George, his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan and the Bible his mother gave him. Next day he presented himself in the President's study...
There the matter was left, with the U. S. firmly refusing to recognize Japan's conquest of China (her Manchukuoan conquest is still unrecognized, too). Japan may still do as she likes since the U. S. is too far away to interfere, but until Japan behaves like a civilized state and makes lawful, orderly proposals, the U. S. will lot condone her behavior...
...clashes to prolong the season into December. Shortly some one had the idea of a championship encounter, the Rose Bowl. Soon a lot of other people wanted a lot of other Bowls, the Sugar, the Cotton, the Finger, the Orange, and Hawaii's Pineapple. It was surprising, as a matter of fact, that baseball was able to keep possession of the Grapefruit...
This should not be the end of the matter. It is not hard to visualize even more "champeenships of champeenships" to come. There is one consideration, though These post-season "classics" may run into the spring practice program...