Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just what the Belgian Premier had afoot was a deep diplomatic secret. The only rumor into which Washington got its teeth was that there was a plan in the making to have the U. S. take a direct interest in the Bank for International Settlements and supply some capital that could be used for stabilizing currencies abroad. But whether it was this or some entirely different plan, the mere presence of M. van Zeeland was enough to make news, for it opened the possibility of the U. S. finding some new diplomatic playmates in Europe. The British and French...
...last spring Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was busy with the aid of farm leaders concocting a new farm bill, something to succeed the Soil Conservation Act (hurriedly passed when AAA was invalidated), something permanent and inclusive-to begin with soil conservation payments, continue with the ever-normal granary (Joseph) plan, and be driven home with production control when the ever-normal granary gets abnormally full. Three weeks ago in press conference Franklin Roosevelt remarked that this was all a fine idea and he hoped some action would be taken on it. However, the President...
...pressed with the point that his bill would boost the Government's expenses about $100,000,000 next year, that it is late in the season and Congress is left with a great deal to do. On condition that Congressional committees would continue study of his plan this summer, have everything ready for Congressional action next January, he finally gave in. After heads had been put together for two hours, Mr. Wallace's big farm plan came out feet first so far as the present session of Congress is concerned...
...Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world's only mosque with a public address system, the muezzin's call to prayer being heard a mile...
...nature of the search for truth." And now much room for spiritual freedom is there in a land where one of the scholars writes that "The teachings of Marx and Lenin have been incarnated in life. The socialist reconstruction of society is not a distant prospect but a definite plan of great work .... And as in all epochs in reconstructing social relationships we are reconstructing science...