Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lull in foreign excitement to bring out a twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received last week by many a Republican politico was a "teaser...
When witty, dashing David Lloyd George was elected a Carnarvonshire alderman at 26, an M. P. at 27, he was criticized as being too brash for one so young. At the end of the century, with such mighty trombones as Joe Chamberlain blaring imperialism, he was criticized for playing pacifistic, pro-Boer tunes. The wealthy aristocracy lambasted him, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his famous Budget of 1909 (which lambasted them) and for his bad taste in calling certain noblemen "Mr. Balfour's poodles." In 1912 he was censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal...
...French Line put special guards on watch over the liner Normandie at Le Havre after the Paris mysteriously burned (see p...
Last week while Britain sent her Ambassador back to Berlin (see p. 22) to seek peace, she busied herself at home with preparations...
...last week for Leslie Burgin was that he is a scholar. He has been known to use as many as 20 different languages in one day's interviews. But as an administrator he was constantly damned last week with the faint word "capable." He has been an M. P. since 1929, Minister of Transport since 1937. Best guess as to the reason for the choice: Neville Chamberlain chose a second-rate man to please business interests, who will be irked by the whole idea, would be doubly irked if an energetic man were put in charge...