Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European plan for a President to remain aloof, letting the Premier do the work, and to make only the stuffiest State visits abroad, but when "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" Dr. Eduard Benes was elected President of Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) everyone knew his way of doing things would be more on the American plan. Last week Dr. & Mrs. Benes arrived at Belgrade to face not the usual assemblage of many Serbian loafers rounded up by police and given a few coppers to cheer, but a mighty ovation such as President Roosevelt got in South America...
...utilitarian memorial would be undignified. The temple at its proposed location will complete the fifth focal point of Major Pierre L'Enfant's famed 18th-Century plan of Washington, the Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House forming the other four. Emperor Hadrian's Pantheon was dear to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello, his own home, and the Rotunda of the University of Virginia are adaptations of its design...
...left stranded, faced by an ugly parking lot, in a poor section. A leader among "broad" and liberal Episcopal churchmen, busy Bishop Hobson occupies himself with the state of his Church as a whole by heading a "Forward Movement" to deepen its spiritual life. Last week he announced his plan to do something in particular about the 23,000 Episcopalians of southern, Ohio...
...franc had another bad spell, and a near-panic occurred in South African gold shares on the Johannesburg Exchange. Not until after President Roosevelt emphatically denied the rumor a second time did the world's money-changers shake their jitters. The President said he knew of no plan to tinker with the price of gold, that all he knew about it was what he saw in the newspapers. He said he understood the story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded on more than fantasy. Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles...
...politician but a shrewd and imposing merchant is 46-year-old Aaron Frank. Oregon's richest sportsman, he is chairman for the Pacific Northwest of the Amateur Athletic Union's executive committee, is said to plan a great athletic pavilion as his monument in Portland. Mainspring in the Meier & Frank business since Uncle Julius moved to the State House in 1930, Aaron Frank has watched his store's sales shrink from $18,510,061 in the fiscal year of 1928 to $11,276,077 in 1934 and swell again to $16,555,952 in 1936. When Aaron...