Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Pittman joined them in demanding, further, that the price now paid for silver by the Treasury (64.64? per oz.) be raised much higher above the market price (40¾?). For four long days last week they tied up other legislation while they "explained" their aims to the Senate and nation. Senator Pittman, an Administration man in most things, gave Secretary Morgenthau a ferocious wigging for not telling the President about the plight of 318,000 Westerners who (Pittman said), dependent on silver production & processing, were thrown out of work when the Treasury lowered its silver subsidy price from...
...northward. To war-anxious Europe this peaceful mobilization meant a kind of armistice. For while peasants in uniform fight Europe's wars, they could hardly be set to fighting until they had got in the grain. And since even modern mechanized armies still travel on their stomachs, no nation could well afford to risk losing its grain supply by attacking another nation during harvest. Though Nazis defied this law of Europe's military history by keeping close to 2,000,000 men under arms as the harvest began, few Believed even Germany would risk a crisis until September...
...dinner given for appeasing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax by London's ultra-Tory 1900 Club: Lord Halifax "is an Englishman, a fox hunter and a friend." For the Government's present policies he now wanted nothing so much as "a united Party, a united Nation and a united Empire." He even did a little appeasing himself. "Not a single element representative of the British nation," said he, "would support for a moment designs against the peace and safety of the Reich and its legitimate prospects of growth and expansion...
...Make it an Arab nation with a Jewish minority...