Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentlemen present - Lord Tweedsmuir as well as Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King - who have recently visited the White House and are ready to tell the Empire what a fine fellow Franklin Roosevelt is, ready to put in a good word for the great peace plan of which the President vaguely dreams...
...next press conference after the Governor-General's departure, the President hastened to pooh-pooh any immediate Peace Plan. His denial quashed rumors that he was going to spring on the world this week (the 20th anniversary of U. S. entry into the War) a proposal for a general disarmament conference. But observers had no doubt that he was still looking for 1) a practical world peace plan; 2) a favorable moment to spring...
Thus did courtly Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona refer to the hearings of his Senate Judiciary Committee on the President's Supreme Court Plan. Last week the Committee rounded out its fourth week of hearings, listening to an assortment of the Plan's opponents, including Henry M. Bates, dean of the University of Michigan (who some 30 years ago taught law to both Henry Ashurst and Burton Wheeler), Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Professor Edwin Borchard of Yale Law School, John T. Flynn, financial writer, Lawyer William B. McDowell of Royal Oak, Mich., Erwin N. Griswold, professor...
...members of the Committee, however, were able to keep the proceedings on this elevated plane. Senator William H. Dieterich, onetime school- teacher and alderman of Rushville, Ill., the very cartoon of a porcine, "practical" politician, was inclined to grunt at witnesses. Originally noncommittal on the President's Plan, he lately got a bit of patronage in the form of an appointment to a Federal judgeship. and by last week he was dutifully surly toward the Opposition. To those whose answers did not suit him, the tone of his retorts was rough. At one point Professor Griswold of Harvard said...
...Governor Murphy of Michigan, who pleaded by radio last week: "I have been urged to 'shoot the workers out of the factories and thus end sit-down strikes once and for all.' Put yourself in my place. If you were Governor of Michigan, would you authorize a plan which might very easily and almost certainly result in bloodshed, bitter and lasting animosities and a deplorable situation which it might very easily take years to correct...