Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Anderson, who, far from being ousted, was last week re-elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, TIME'S apologies; to TIME'S National Affairs department, a rap on the knuckles. The resolution to oust him was tabled...
Without prior notice to any of his Congress leaders, Mr. Roosevelt suddenly produced from his magical hat the long-awaited Great White Rabbit of 1939. It was a revolving, self-liquidating rabbit and Mr. Roosevelt put its life at a maximum seven years, its first-year size at $870,000,000, ultimate size $3,860,000,000. Rather than rob WPA to pay PWA said he, let Congress empower the following agencies to lend (NOT spend) the following sums on the following projects, which would pay for themselves in the end, interest payments meantime causing the funds to revolve...
Before the true size and nature of this rabbit could be assimilated by Congressional minds, Mr. Roosevelt further announced his appointment of Jesse Holman Jones to head the new Federal Loan Agency and of John Michael Carmody to head the new Federal Works Agency. Mr. Jones's translation from Reconstruction Finance Corp. was scarcely unexpected, but quick reference to the President's great new scheme made observers wonder if Mr. Jones had not been kicked upstairs instead of promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional...
...White House Mr. Roosevelt summoned the Congressional and administrative figures chiefly involved, to exhort quick action. He made known that he wished all new Federal securities issued to supply the $3,860,000,000 to be nonexempt from taxes. He then left Congress and the nation to cogitate the implications of the 1939 rabbit, by all odds his largest since...
...last week the disaster wagon had practically nothing to do. Then heavy rains fell on Portland. Out roared the "disaster wagon" on its first real job-pumping out a flooded basement. The building: Lipman Wolfe's department store (just across the street from Mr. Frank's store), his biggest competitor...