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...Deal for the U. S.: "The issue is not whether Mexico should pursue social and economic policies designed to improve the standard of living of its people. The issue is whether, in pursuing them, the property of American nationals may be taken by the Mexican Government without making prompt payment of just compensation to the owners in accordance with the universally recognized rules of law and equity...
...Federal Judgeship on 39-year-old Governor Allred (TIME. July 18), the story was that there had been a political deal: Son Elliott Roosevelt had got his friend Mr. Allred the Judgeship and Mr. Allred would help Elliott get elected to office, perhaps the lieutenant-governorship in 1940. Prompt and explicit in his comment was Son Elliott: "I do not plan to run for any political office now, two years from now or four years hence...
...Hopkins said that the State WPAdministrator had been told to "take the necessary punitive action."* Any further proven charge of political coercion would be summarily dealt with. "But we will be equally prompt in exposing any accusations trumped up to serve the political ends, of those who are opposed to this Administration...
...invaluable assistance in years past, Messrs. Kelly and Nash this year found that internal considerations made it advisable to drop Judge Jarecki from the ticket, run a rival Pole, a circuit court judge named John Prystalski, for his office. Judge Jarecki's reply to this slight was a prompt announcement that he would run anyway, independently if necessary. It was not necessary. Governor Homer's faction, which has long been looking for some way to shake its rival's Cook County dominance, immediately saw in Judge Jarecki the answer to its prayer...
Swedes, Italians, all chipped in to build new beet-sugar factories, power plants, cotton mills. Road builders arrived from Europe and America and construction companies were not long in learning that Teheran, "City of the Shadow of God." was to undergo a facial operation. The King of Kings guaranteed prompt payment in foreign cash...