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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Mr. Lippmann's tart comment appeared, it became apparent also that Joe Kennedy's calls at the White House would henceforth be less frequent, since he had been given the job of Ambassador to England (see p. 10). By week's end. neither the N. A. M. meeting nor a Gallup poll in which 58% of the replies held the New Deal wholly or partly responsible for the depression, drew a response from the White House. By way of a moderate gesture of encouragement to Business, the President, however, told a press conference that...
Government Uncertainty. If Business bears no love for Franklin Roosevelt, the attitude of N. A. M. speakers towards his Administration was diplomatic. Avoiding the futile acrimony which characterized their meeting two years ago and the equally profitless sweetness which veiled their feelings last year, the delegates spoke their mind on the New Deal with dignity and restraint. In one of the most sense-making of the orations Lammot du Pont pointed out that for private industry to create jobs for 3,000,000 workers required investment of at least $25,000,000,000- money invested "a year, two years, perhaps...
...distinctly cool-an observation borne out by the fact that Mr. Fahy was later approached by Vice President H. L. Derby of American Cyanamid Co. who declared: "That was a fine, courageous action of yours, appearing here this morning." In spite of the fact that most of the N. A. M.'s members are reconciled to collective bargaining, they managed to write a labor platform that would appeal to organized labor about as much as an anti-picketing injunction. The manufacturers asked for the easing of Federal and State restrictions on the use of labor injunctions. They asked that...
...Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant of an illustrious 15th Century defender of Granada against the Moors. In 1919 a Papal legate in Paris performed the ceremony which united "Mimi" with an Englishman named Cecil Blunt, né Blumenthal, who straightway became a Papal Count by appointment of Benedict XV. In Rome the Pecci-Blunts own the ancient Palazzo Malatesta at the foot of the Capitoline. Their country house in Tuscany is the Villa Reala de Marlia, world-famed for its hedge carvings. In Paris they entertain with...
Washington--Luncheon at the Cosmos Club Assembly Hall, Fifteenth Street and Madison Place, N. W., December 28 at 1:15 o'clock. Secretary, John H. Pratt '30, 905 American Security Bldg., Washington...