Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court Justices, but the President refused to believe them. They gave out hints of compromise; Franklin Roosevelt refused to bat an eye. They deliberately delayed action on the bill hoping he would see his mistake. Finally, giving up hope of changing him, they began to plan on letting the Court bill die without action. When this was reported in the press last week, Franklin Roosevelt changed front barely in time to save face. It remained to be seen what else he could save. A two-judge compromise, which would easily have won in April, in June after a long...
...profits proposed by Neville Chamberlain in his Budget Speech (TIME, May 3). Leveled at Britain's fattened armament firms, this tax was originally designed to yield an annual revenue of $125,000,000 toward the cost of the Government's $7,500,000,000 five-year armament plan...
Last February, The Nation antagonized its angel by greeting Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan with tempered approval as "a brilliant tour de force. . . . It is the task of progressives to support the measure-with an open-eyed awareness of its shortcomings...
...passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged $30,000 to a $300,000 subscription drive. Although $200,000 were still wanting and their plans had not crystallized, the Board refused to continue Modarelli...
Last week Director Palmer lay ill at St. John's Hospital in Springfield. Plan was to have Governor Horner honor his victory by signing the bill at his bedside...