Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woes and protesting the interference of C.I.O. Last week it was learned that a guiding spirit among these citizens was John Price Jones, famed Manhattan publicist and fundraiser. A former resident of Johnstown, he had foregone his Harvard reunion to help formulate and promulgate nationally a "Johnstown Plan," calling for a chain of citizens' committees across the land to protect the right-to-work against exponents of the right-to-strike...
...Government has decided immediately to apply a plan of restoration, including defense of the Bank of France's reserves without recourse to exchange control, implacable war against speculation, a strictly balanced budget for 1937, to be obtained through appropriate fiscal measures and an important reduction in the Treasury's burden...
...long first-draft preamble was soon sliced down to one paragraph remarking the Guild's partisanship on the Supreme Court plan, the Spanish civil war, "the support of a particular political party," its affiliation with C.I.O. Some small-town publishers, still comparatively free from unionization, wanted in the resolution no recognition of the right to collective bargaining, fearing that it would inspire immediate mass organization in their plants. But broad-viewing publishers like Roy Howard fought for and won inclusion of such recognition as a means of gaining public goodwill. Up on his feet a dozen & more times jumped...
Thus unfolded were Steps Nos. 2 and 3 of the great Hearst retrenchment plan of 1937, necessitated by the fact that not even William Randolph Hearst can carry losing properties indefinitely and that he, though hale at 74, is getting no younger. His plans to mortgage a big portion of his properties to the public for $35,500,000 cash remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent...
Most Senators and Representatives critical of the President's Supreme Curt Plan and labor policies attended, for not to attend, barring a good excuse, was tantamount to a break with the New Deal. Among absentees were Senators Glass, George, Burke, Gerry, Sheppard, Copeland, King, Donahey, Holt, Bilbo...