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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This remark was in quite different tenor from those which Filipinos were making when High Commissioner McNutt demoted President Quezon in the Philippine toast list last spring, but it was nothing to the shocker which President Quezon delivered two days later. To a press conference, besides confirming reports that the U. S. and Philippine members of the Joint Committee had differed sharply before the departure of the former, he announced that he would welcome proposals for dominion status for the Philippines but that such proposals "must come from someone else." Said Shadow Boxer Quezon: "If anybody wants a dominion status...
Such last week was the clinical history of a sensationally severe toothache which, complicated by an attack of indigestion caused by the squab chicken he ate at the National Press Club dinner last fortnight, caused Franklin Roosevelt to cancel all engagements for four days. The engagements included two press conferences, a speech at Mt. Vernon which Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace delivered in his stead, a conference with utility company heads which was postponed to this week. It did not cause him to cancel a chat with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, which took place in his private quarters...
Simultaneously Mr. Hull announced at a State Department press conference and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced to the House of Commons that a U. S.-British reciprocal trade agreement, after a year of pourparlers in London and Washington, was at last ready to be hatched. Specifically, Mr. Hull asked all interested parties to submit to the State Department's Committee for Reciprocity Information by Dec. 16 their suggestions for bargaining. Thereafter formal notice of the negotiations together with a list of products to be discussed will be forthcoming...
...publicity-seeking" and "cheap methods of gaining notoriety", we state without qualification that the publicity in the Boston papers was unsolicited on our part, and unknown to us before its appearance. We cannot feel obliged to avoid controversial issues merely because the local press finds the labor situation at Harvard worthy of front page coverage...
...Leroy Seavey, acting chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Administrator John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration and Ervin E. King, Master of the Washington State Grange, in whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project. When reporters trooped in later for the regular press conference, they found the President full of thoughts on Power. He launched into a long dissertation on the theory of utility rates. By the time the reporters were free to head for telephones, they had a front-page business story, for the President had offered peace terms in the bitterest...