Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven Senators led by Oklahoma's silver-haired Thomas and Nevada's roseate McCarran, who advanced an inflation plan calling for $2,000,000,000 of new paper currency to be backed by the Treasury's idle gold. Idaho's Borah and Nevada's 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...
From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...
This information was the more interesting because last week Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman-after weeks of outcry by friends of peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought...
Because of the Son of Heaven's birthday (Hirohito was 38 last week) official Japan reserved comment on Senator Pittman's proposal, which would indeed be a one-two pair of punches to Japan's military economy. But the new direction of Japan's diplomacy was further clarified in a speech at Los Angeles last week by the man with whom Japan replaced dying Hirosi Saito last December...
...Interpreters could think of no provocation for Mussolini's sarcastic phrase "convivial vociferation," except the facts: 1) that Senator Pittman sometimes mixes good Bourbon with his statesmanship; 2) in December he abruptly announced...