Word: presi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every taxpayer knows, is not the same thing as economical politics. President Coolidge. shrewd politician, made a great reputation by ding-donging the nation on cutting the cost of government. Yet between 1925 and 1929 Federal expenditures rose from $3.546,826,897 to $4,559,931,993. Under Presi dent Hoover, shrewd economist, the Treasury's cash outlay climbed to $4,951,160,738 in 1931. Typical of widespread popular exasperation with Federal costs was a speech made last week by loud Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, editor & publisher of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"). Angrily cried...
Forces for inflation worked busily last week in congress where the House whipped through a bill to create a Reconstruction Finance Corp., keystone of Presi dent Hoover's whole relief program. The vote was 335-10-55. By a vote of 63-10-8 the Senate a week before passed a similar measure. The thumping big Congressional majorities echoed the nation's great expectations. What opposition there was came from literal-minded gentlemen who could not find the word "food"' in the re lief bills. Yet to be settled in conference were secondary differences between the House & Senate measures. With...
Died. Seymour Wemyss Smith, 35, editor of The Financial Digest; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was famed for his contention that John Hanson, not George Washington, was the first Presi dent of the U. S., that the U. S. was created...
Died. Charles W. Curtiss, 50, presi dent and general manager of the Waterbury Clock Co?; of heart disease; in Waterbury, Conn...
June: Premier Laval showed his tough Auvergnat mettle by holding up the Hoover One-Year Moratorium singlehanded, hurling his famed defy?"Presi-dent Hoover can entrench himself behind his Congress and I can entrench myself behind the Chamber"?and hanging on doggedly until the Moratorium was modified into a form acceptable to France...