Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People. (Senator Borah growled that, all right, the People should hear the other side, too.) He got the Senators to agree that full responsibility for failure to change the Neutrality law now should rest with them, and that Neutrality shall be the first order of business on their calendar next session. Taking pen & paper, he scratched off a statement reiterating that he and the Secretary of State still maintain that failure to act now weakened U. S. influence in preserving peace...
...effectually demolished the national Roosevelt political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine (composed of State bosses & underlings) which built up and elected Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, stayed with him in 1936. At the Philadelphia convention three years ago, about half the 1,100 delegates were Federal jobholders. Next year only Cabinet officers, Congressmen and a few top-rank policy officers of the Roosevelt regime may be delegates. Power unprecedented will be in the hands of the State bosses, Jim Farley's friends. The whole Roosevelt strategy of getting uninstructed delegations for 1940 was out on the ropes...
...basically altering the authority of the New Deal's entire administrative structure while Leader Barkley and his whip, "Shay" Minton, were engrossed in conversation right on the floor. Not only that, but Senator Logan argued in open Senate against his colleague and Leader, when the latter came to next day. He would not yield his victory, and garrumped at the New Deal agencies whose oxen were most seriously gored: "Congress created them and if Congress wants to restrict their powers, they should keep their mouths shut...
Then overworked Joe Robinson died, and Franklin Roosevelt played straight into McNary's hands by his choice of bumbling "Dear Alben" Barkley over Pat Harrison for his new Leader. Next came the attempted Purge, another stroke of political amateurishness. McNary grew almost profane when restless men like Vandenberg talked openly of an open coalition with the conservative Democrats whom Roosevelt was trying to read out. He encouraged his followers to go to ball games with Jack Garner, Pat Harrison and other time-biders, but kept them from doing anything that might revive loyalty to the Democratic label...
...space of 25 hours Britain set a record by launching three new cruisers: the 8,000-ton Nigeria and Mauritius and the 5,450-ton Dido. Within the next several months the Navy will also launch two 35,000-ton battleships, the Duke of York and the Beatty; two new 23,000-ton aircraft carriers, the Victorious and the Formidable; four more cruisers, a destroyer depot ship and several destroyers and submarines...