Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable exception is Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State. Last week Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, 71, suddenly reappeared in the public eye in a way which clearly rated him the one real Elder Statesman now on the U. S. scene...
...fact had a policy. When Japan in 1931 revived undeclared war as an international blackjack, he proposed to resist aggressors by all peaceful means. But in a war-shy, depression-hit world, Britain's statesmen would not back him up. He could do little more in public than denounce treaty-smashers as pungently as diplomatic usage permitted. Before leaving office he visited Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park, indelibly impressed him. In the past six years, Colonel Stimson and Cordell Hull have become great cronies behind the scenes...
...benefit of dairymen, 24 States tax oleomargarine. Some are thinking of banning each other's milk, butter, cheese. Meantime, while the per capita consumption of milk stays too low for public health, Southern States whose cottonseed goes into margarine threaten to forbid or restrict imports of dairy products...
...future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have stretched and perverted these powers to impose taxes, trucking fees, quarantines, which in actual if not legal fact are tariffs between the States. Since most of the devices...
...husband's trick explanation about how the national debt (public plus private) has not grown since...