Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn. There were even a good-natured few willing to listen to "The Man" Bilbo expatiate on his "Dream House" in Mississippi. With the introduction of just one bill, the Pittman Neutrality measure, the Senate decorously ended its first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind the lectern of the Speaker's rostrum. Police and Secret Servants had checked " double-checked invitations and guests as they had arrived. Mrs. Roosevelt and the Boettigers were snug in the executive gallery...
...Resolution passed by Congress last session shall expire on Feb. 29. Point No. 2 has thus far been only a matter of moral suasion by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull. Few hours before the President spoke, there was introduced in both Senate and House, by Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman Sam D. McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, an Administration-backed bill which proposed to make not only these two points but other neutrality ideas permanent parts of the land...
What happened was simple. A year and a half ago the silver bloc in Congress, headed by Senator Key Pittman of silvery Nevada, passed a law instructing the U. S. Treasury to buy silver until the U. S. held one-third as much silver as gold in its reserves or until the price of silver reached...
...merely postponed them. Secretary Morgenthau swore the U. S. was sticking to its silver policy but what that was to be hereafter was anybody's guess. Silver traders the world over swore and bit their nails. U. S. financiers admitted they could not fathom it. In Reno Senator Pittman sat down and dictated a long signed statement for the Press. Excerpts: "Certain governments and certain banking institutions and speculators in ... foreign countries desire to know what our government is going to do. It's none of their business. They never tell us what they are going...
After the dam ceremony, while motoring to Las Vegas, Nev. to re-entrain for the coast, Senator Pittman suggested driving up nearby Mount Charleston. The gravel road, just built by CCCsters, winds around sheer shoulders with room for only one car. Ten miles up there was a hair-raising moment as the President's car was turned around, with the President in it and only a foot to separate him from a yawning precipice...