Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Effect of Franklin Roosevelt's nocturnal note was to add to the incredible amount of confusion already caused by the combination of an innocuous, 40-year-old plan to make the Government more efficient with a Presidential personality capable of such gestures. When the House began its own rowdy debate on Reorganization, Administration leaders found it advisable to accept the opposition amendment reposing ultimate authority for Presidential shifts in a Congressional majority. On this basis the bill seemed sure of passage, and riding back to Washington, tanned and rested after his busy week, Franklin Roosevelt felt reasonably convinced that...
...massive, retentive and, though powerful, often very clumsy. Since 1928, the last attribute of the Republican Party has been its most conspicuous one. First sign of smartness the G. O. P. has exhibited in almost a decade appeared last year in the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Smartness in this crisis, however, since it consisted merely of lying low and letting conservative and progressive Democrats battle it out, was of too negative a sort to be very encouraging. Not until this year have signs of genuine Republican resurgence made it of real interest...
...districts that elected Democratic Representatives did so by 5% majorities or less and it is these districts which can be principally expected to enlarge Joe Martin's herd. He does not plan to lose any of his present Congressmen. He hopes to gain six seats in New England (two each in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut). Gallup Poll gives the G. O. P. 39 new seats in the Central States. Joe Martin is currently counting on only 22, with ten from Ohio where Republicans anticipate defeating Governor Davey. The Committee expects eight new Congressmen from the corn & wheat belt...
...brought to the telephone one morning by a private and patriotic person who told me that Germany, Italy and Japan were on the point of making a joint declaration of war against this country, that several parts of the dominions were to be distributed according to plan, and that this was not a question of weeks, but of immediate days. It required some resolution on my part to assure my caller that this war would not start before the next morning and he might, therefore, retire...
...repercussions of Austria's Nazification last week continued to widen through the world. Opportunistic Hollywood threw its hat into the ring as a prospective "American Salzburg." And 200 embattled citizens of arty Westport, Conn, nearly shattered the rafters of their Town Hall with furious protests against the plan to make Westport a "Salzburg on the Saugatuck" (TIME, March 28). Following the meeting, Westport's Board of Zoning Appeals refused to grant Millionaire Patrick A. Powers a permit to continue construction on his $100,000 "Dream Stadium...