Word: program
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Because its majority is divided and because he had no new idea to spring, Franklin Roosevelt signalized this session of Congress by not demanding of it some major program to improve society. His "appeasement" of Business for recovery, now a bad joke, was to have been an executive job done by Harry Hopkins, whose performance was crippled by intestinal flu. In fighting with Congress for larger Relief appropriations than it was willing to give, the President has slowed up other legislation. And though the President's critics are doubtless unjust when they say that he has been plugging foreign...
Minnesota's New Republican Governor Harold Stassen last week presented himself in Washington as a young man worthy of note because: 1) he had just put a bang-up, middle-of-the-road reform program through his first Legislature, and 2) he cannot run for the Presidency next year. He is 32, will be nicely past the Constitutional minimum of 35 in 1944. Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn...
...demonstrated that Great Britain's biggest naval building program is well ahead of schedule. It came five days after Chancellor Hitler denounced the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement by shouting to the Reichstag, "The basis for the naval treaty with England has been removed!" It came after long discussions in British newsorgans about the strength of the new ships compared with the Nelson and the Rodney, most modern British battleships. The Prince of Wales and King George V are of an improved Nelson class, carry ten 14-inch and 16 5¼-inch guns, with a 14-inch armor...
Considering such facts, many a businessman began last week to wonder what had happened to the talked of armament boom. Yet the U. S. armament program now calls for expenditures of $1,665,000,000 in the next fiscal (June to June) year. The nonappearance of a boom in spite of these expenditures was partly explained by the following facts...
...their program the Cincinnatians had chosen a massive musical barbecue that only the stoutest and most experienced musical stomachs could digest. Most notable piece de resistance was the huge 8th Symphony of Gustav Mahler, for full chorus, boys' choir, a 102-man symphony orchestra and a choir of brass instruments off stage. One of the most impressive of 20th-century symphonic works, Mahler's immense, unwieldy, hour-and-a-half-long symphony is seldom performed. When Leopold Stokowski played it in Philadelphia 23 years' ago, proud Philadelphians crowed as though they had hatched a world...