Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your report on my debate with Mr. Gannett [TIME, Jan. 23] you refer to "International Paper Company, which once owned stock in Gannett papers. . . ." According to all reports, including that of the Federal Trade Commission, the name of the firm is International Paper & Power Co. I must insist upon this point because, in the course of the debate, Mr. Gannett, too, tried to make a distinction between the Paper and the Power Company, as if they were separate enterprises...
...March 27, 1929, Mr. Graustein announced that I. P. & P. had bought 82 per cent of the common stock of the New England Power Association...
...want to see all the nations of the world reduce their armaments. ... I have seen no acquiescence on the part of Mr. Hitler. Have you? Who is taking a belligerent attitude in the world today...
...upset and excited Military Affairs.* In the White House, President Roosevelt began to lecture Chairman Sheppard on his reasons for helping France, using background facts and confidential reports so arresting that Chairman Sheppard presently told the President he really thought the whole Military Affairs Committee should hear this lecture. Mr. Roosevelt agreed, and presently the committee, 17 strong, were closeted with the U. S. Commander in Chief at the White House...
...Mr. Dies had to be content with an extension of one year and a promised appropriation of $100,000 (to be voted later), instead of two years and $150,000. His victory was otherwise impressive. Starting as a nobody who became head of the seriocomic Demagogs' Club in the House, Martin Dies had been built up by Franklin Roosevelt's enemies to the point where even critics of noisy Mr. Dies and friends of Mr. Roosevelt did not dare vote against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington...