Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than 24 hours a municipal council of 33 civilian antifascists was formed to administer Madrid, which thus again reverted to civilian rule. Elected to head the new Municipal Council was 45-year-old Rafael Henche de la Plata, onetime head of a bakers' union, a prominent Socialist politician in Madrid for the last 20 years. By week's end Civilian Boss Henche had already taken over the huge task of feeding and disciplining Madrid's besieged million...
Such were the ominous words of Hugh Johnson last week. They reflected the worry of many a politician in Washington: the expectation that revenues for fiscal 1937 would fall $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 below estimates, the fact that Secretary Morgenthau found it necessary to resume borrowing, beginning with the sale of $50,000,000 worth of short-term bills this week. In the Senate, Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson spoke out almost as pessimistically as Hugh Johnson...
These stirrings gave Havana a high political fever, with rumors of new coalitions circulating hourly. About all that any Cuban politician knew surely was that, let coalitions form where they might, for the moment the undisputed boss of Cuba was husky, brown Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar...
...sorely needed records kept where records never existed before. Says the Illinois Bar Journal of busy Mr. Hodes' activities: "Probably nothing more dramatic in the field of public law has taken place in recent years than this 'renovation.' " Says Barnet Hodes: "Sure, I'm a politician. I'm here because I'm one, but I've got to produce...
...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...