Word: pronunciamentoes
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...hours before the President went on the air, the National Association of Manufacturers, convening in Washington, issued a pronunciamento declaring that the threat of New Deal reform measures was all that blocked the pent-up surge of recovery. With a last-minute addition to his speech, President Roosevelt at once delivered a bold reply, outlined his "must" program of legislation, asked the electorate to help him prod Congress to action. Items...
Those liberal magazines which have attacked Mr. Smith's "boloney dollar" pronunciamento will undoubtedly find in this suggestion a good deal of fuel. Since his association with the Empire State Building, it has been supposed that Mr. Smith is forever lost to the cause of liberalism. But the significant point here is not Mr. Smith's lack of liberalism; it is his unfamiliarity with a few large landmarks in American constitutional law. The provisions which he suggests are the conventional child labor provisions, sponsored by agitators since the dawn of the twentieth contury, and effectively caught in the impasse...
...club has sent letters to undergraduate political organizations in numerous colleges apprising them that the Senate at Washington doesn't seem eager to do anything about the political situation in Louisiana. Now is the time for all good men to applaud the sentiment which animates this pronunciamento. At the same time it may be regretted that the letter was not phrased with that strict regard for dignity and sobriety in expression which is to be expected from young gentlemen who attend classes in English at Harvard. It says, for instance...
Fortunately for Millimetternich Dollfuss, there is another Heimwehr commander who has never yet wavered in his loyalty, blue-eyed, square-jawed Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor. From the Dollfuss office went forth a new pronunciamento announcing that "Nazi terrorism has become so barbarous that the Government's patience is at an end." Thereupon Major Fey was given new powers to jail judges, police, city or federal authorities suspected of Nazi sympathies...
...imperial pronunciamento of the Fascist Grand Council of Italy has thrown another bomb at the decrepit League of Nations. The League is to be bullied into reform or else the delegation of Italy as well as that of Germany and Japan will be missing from Geneva. Coming as an anti-climax to the recent flood of nationalistic out-bursts, Italy's cry seems too obviously a bid to be heard, a youngish boast of a rising power henceforth to be reckoned with by the other big powers. But reform of the League of Nations' covenant is and has been...