Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fadeaway which saved the faces (and possibly the resignations) of Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and Congressional pressure) was effected at a White House luncheon topped off by peach shortcake. The President and Tax Revisionist Pat Harrison (who had huffily told Mr. Roosevelt he was going to get a new tax bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest compromiser in the Senate. Giving in to an extent almost unknown during the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt finally told Henry ("Henny-Penny"), Morgenthau...
...ribbing was not long in coming. Massachusetts' sour-faced Treadway, ranking Republican on the committee, recalled that Mr. Morgenthau's counsel, the late Herman Oliphant, had argued "at very great length and very emphatically" for the Undistributed Profits Tax only two years ago. He welcomed Mr. Morgenthau "into our line of thought." Why the change of heart, asked Mr. Treadway...
...convinced . . . renomination . . . re-election." Chicago's Mayor Kelly also double-negatived: ". . . did not say he would not. . . ." Twenty-four hours before Iowa's ex-Governor Kraschel left the White House avowing that his State's people "would never be satisfied with a Presidential candidate except Mr. Roosevelt or someone in harmony with his views," Colorado's ex-Governor Sweet declared his conviction that Mr. Roosevelt could be renominated, despite opposition by conservatives like his State's Senator Alva Adams...
...Administration leaders on Capitol Hill let it be known that they would like Congress to adjourn by July 15, a date chosen because by then Mr. Roosevelt will have entertained the King & Queen in Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could...
...Neighbor Nicaragua got $2,000,000 in credits from Mr. Roosevelt (arranged by the Bank of the Manhattan Company and guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank) as a consequence of President Anastasio Somoza's visit (TIME, May 15). Next good neighbor (Brazil was first: $50,000,000 in March) expecting a handout: Paraguay...