Word: prod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect investors; 2) to further ease credit through the Federal Reserve; 3) to put a floor under Exchange prices by setting a limit on each day's fluctuation, such as the Government now does in the wheat market. One precaution Administration leaders took last week was to prod Congress into extending until 1941 the President's powers over the dollar and the $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund...
Before the U. S. House of Representatives last week was the Patman anti-chainstore tax bill-so stringent it would kill all interstate chains. The theory of chain-store taxing was thus approaching its major test, and propaganda against it sprouted on every side under the prodding of A. & P. Pressagents Carl Byoir & Co. Most novel prod last week was an exposition of how anti-chain agitation sometimes boomerangs against the wholesalers and independent stores by resulting in increased public recognition of chain's low prices...
...Alliance prod is political action. Last week David Lasser claimed large credit for purging Manhattan's Congressman John J. O'Connor (see p. 72). He cried: "Shall we engage in political activities? My fellow delegates, we are in political activities!'' Whereupon the convention offered its support to Franklin Roosevelt for a third term if he wants one and resolved: "Bread and Progress are of greater concern to us and to the American people as a whole than so-called traditions...
Mostly they had kept their campaign on a more polite level, letting their henchmen prod WPAsters for Barkley votes, old age pensioners and State jobholders for Chandler votes...
...trend of events in California served to prod liquor men into searching more quickly for a new front man. Because the late Forbes Morgan's close tie with the White House had caused comment, Chairman Brown and colleagues last week were looking for someone not too closely identified with the Administration, yet on good terms with it. Besides a Washington calling card, the Institute wants a man with a pleasing personality who under no circumstances can be called a stuffed shirt...