Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politicians at once applauded Mr. Roosevelt's acumen at finding 1) a way to continue spending without having it show in his chronically unbalanced Budget; 2) another big shot-in-the-arm for Business, produced (or at least talked about) in time to have effect on the 1940 elections...
...Perhaps hasty, perhaps piercing, was the conclusion leaped to by some commentators that Mr. Jones was elevated so that RFC's loan rate, which Mr. Jones has kept as near 4% as possible, might be lowered to 2½ % or even 2 %. Heir-apparent to the RFC chairmanship was Emil Schram, a member of Mr. Jones's board of directors since...
...Department of Justice sped to Baton Rouge, Dick Leche welcomed them on his sickbed, where arthritis born of infected teeth had him down. And he announced that illness constrained him to resign, bequeathing the governorship to Huey's ambitious, vituperative Brother Earl, the Lieutenant Governor. Said Richard Leche: "Mr. Long has tremendous backing throughout the country and is the announced choice of Mayor Robert S. Maestri of the city of New Orleans...
Huey's onetime boy friends, Mayor Maestri and Hotelman Seymour Weiss of New Orleans, were no less interested in this development than was State Senator James A. Noe, onetime friend of Huey's friends. It was Mr. Noe who was reported to have stirred up Washington columnists, hoping thereby to better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother...
...deadlock at Tientsin. One point upon which negotiations waited was the Japanese insistence on holding conferences, not in Tokyo, but in Tientsin, with the British holding out for conversations right in Tokyo. On this point it seemed unlikely that the Japanese Foreign Office of the mild-mannered, hard-working Mr. Shigemitsu, who has tried his best to keep good relations with the British, would be able to accede. For by last week it was even more evident that the Japanese Army in North China and not the Japanese Government in Tokyo, was solely responsible for the Tientsin blockade and that...