Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first five years of Franklin Roosevelt's regime, he ran the U. S. Government faster and more completely than any President before or since. In the year since the Court fight, the President may have seemed to have slackened his pace because other of the people's representatives have bestirred themselves. But last week, of the 113,014 Federal employes in Washington, he alone made practically all the news. Renewing his contact with the electorate by radio, addressing Congress for the first time on Recession, communicating unconventionally with the House & Senate tax committees, greeting Pan America...
Lucas v. Igoe. Illinois' downstate Senator William Dieterich got himself elected on the same ticket as Chicago's Henry Horner in 1932, has since distinguished himself in Illinois by attempting unsuccessfully to swing the downstate vote away from his former running mate when Governor Horner ran for re-election in 1936. In Washington he has voted consistently for the New Deal, but last winter any hope Franklin Roosevelt might have entertained to reward Mr. Dieterich's loyalty was thwarted. Governor Horner and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly paid separate visits to the White House, each...
...Governor George Earle of Pennsylvania likes to assert that the long fingers of J. P. Morgan reach into too many crannies for the public good; SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas argues that major financing programs should always be subject to competitive bidding. Last week all three of these themes ran through the complicated story of a battle for control of rich Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...
Young's Case. According to this bitterly angry financier, the whole shebang is a result of "the interests" ganging up on him. Robert Young asserts that when the Vans ran C. & 0., its fat banking account was always handled by J. P. Morgan & Co. or by Guaranty, on whose directorate sit two Morgan partners. Morgan's, claims Mr. Young, also handled all C. & O. financing, which was never offered to competitive bidding from other investment houses. This business would now fall to Morgan Stanley & Co., Morgan's underwriting offshoot since the New Deal divorced deposit banking...
Heading the list of Freshman batters who ran up 13 hits in the course of the afternoon, was Phil Cutler, right field, who made three base hits in his four times at bat. The only multiple-base hits were made by Davis, at left field, who slammed out a three bagger and Helman with two bases...