Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MR. BARKLEY: I ask unanimous consent that . . . the Senate . . . stand in adjournment until Thursday next...
Profound distrust of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy inspired Mr. Garner, who thinks that the less Democrats say about it, the better for him or any other Democratic candidate for President in 1940. Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark...
...Hampshire's Senator Bridges persuaded the Senate Military Affairs Committee to call Ambassador to Germany Hugh R. Wilson. If, as reported, Hugh Wilson does not see Europe as Franklin Roosevelt was shown it by Bill Bullitt & Joe Kennedy, the committee was not so informed. In net effect, Mr. Wilson gravely underlined the Bullitt-Kennedy reports (TIME, Jan. 23). Whereas those gentlemen talked at length, Mr. Wilson talked hardly at all. The situation, he said, was too grave for discussion...
...fear of what Mr. Dies might do to him hung over redoubtable Captain Ortman. From Chicago, he enjoys his $2,700-a-year job and smart blue uniform as patronage from Illinois' old Senator J. Ham Lewis. Besides, he explained, his chief quarrel was not with Representative Dies & committee but with veterans and their organizations. Said Veteran Ortman: "They're beginning to think the country is permeated with "isms" when . . . the American public is 99 44/100% pure...
...Last week Mr. Dies was rushed to hospital, relieved of a gangrenous appendix...