Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China, plus educative efforts by Republican Senator Vandenberg, paved the way for denunciation by the Administration of the 1911 trade & navigation treaty with Japan. Gallup polls showing 51% of the voters in favor of clamping down on war materials for Japan assured Mr. Roosevelt that this was a popular thing to do. His own bent in international power politics made it desirable. He was glad to get out of the public doghouse...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the State Department whether an embargo on U. S. war materials for Japan would violate the treaty of commerce and navigation which has bound the U. S. and Japan since 1911. The State Department said yes, whereupon alert Republican Senator Vandenberg, well aware of popular sentiment against continued winking at Japan's war in China (and war against Occidental interests there) offered a resolution to denounce that treaty, giving six months' notice as provided in its articles. After the six months, an embargo could be voted, based on Japan's violations...
...more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew the $85,000,000 loan, the Labor Government would have to mend its ways...
Responsive to popular sentiment, it revised taxes against the President's will. Vote-hungry, it lavished money on farmers. Economy-minded (if not economy-willed), it pared the Relief outlay, tightened the rules, canceled projects it considered frittering. Stubborn, self-assertive, it would have taken away the President's monetary powers had he not been able to barter with enough venal Silver Senators. Weary of experiment, it harnessed TVA. But all these anti-Roosevelt actions were a gentle prelude to what came last week...
Died. James Weber Linn, 63, "most popular professor" at the University of Chicago where he taught English for 40 years, Illinois State Legislator, nephew and biographer of Jane Addams; at Lakeside, Mich...