Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Franklin Roosevelt was doing his best to influence the fortunes of the war. On the eve of the Senate debate he had General Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck, come to Washington. An advocate of dollar devaluation, of the self- contained-nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when...
Also last week the Board effected a neat propaganda coup at the Packard plant in Detroit. For nation-wide consumption, Francis E. Ross, accounting professor at the University of Michigan who is in charge of the elections, carefully explained for the newsreels the mechanics of the balloting as pictures were taken of Packard workers going to the polls. The Packard vote, a primary election to select 40 men to run for places on a 20-man collective bargaining agency, went: 2,657 for unaffiliated candidates; 2,131 for company union candidates; no for the A. F. of L. union...
...many of our readers recall the days of the so-called "prosperity"? Then daily proclamations from the Department of the Treasury decreed the golden age, upon the authority of the mild-mannered gentleman who served as such a polite watchdog of the nation's finances. (Mr. Morgenthau can never hope to achieve a like benignity; the poetry of yesterday has yielded to prose.) To be a broker was not at that time the equivalent of pauperism, nor were pent-houses merely points of departure for leaps to the pavement below...
...opposition to Professor Gini, then, is based upon a full realization of both the shallowness of Harvard's "liberalism," and also the harm that Professor Gini and the type of government he represents can do in the long run to Harvard and the nation. National Student League...
...hundred and sixty of Boston's and the nation's finest will be on hand Saturday night to insure the safety of President Roosevelt on his two-hour visit to the Fly Club's annual winter dinner...