Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearances, Harry Hopkins had indeed recommended Pinky over Aubrey. The choice in fact represented no great change in policy, but a concession to political expediency. Pinky Harrington is a first-rate politician. Particularly does he know how to coddle Congressmen -a talent which single-minded Aubrey Williams lacks. Since Relief is headed for a good going-over in the next Congress, Franklin Roosevelt needs such a man at the top of WPA. Even 100% New Dealers concede that Aubrey Williams is not the man, after his public talk about class war and the political privileges of Reliefers...
...Interest ... on the Federal debt amounts to only a little more than 1% of our national income. . . . Owing to the decline in the rate of interest, the total of interest payments today is far less than...
Among many Frenchmen there rose a feeling that Premier Daladier, by a few strokes of the pen at Munich, had turned France into a second-rate power. Aping Mussolini in his gestures and copying triumphant Hitler's shouting complex, the once liberal Daladier at year's end was reduced to using parliamentary tricks to keep...
Before Parliament adjourned for its Christmas recess, to meet again on January 31, youthful Dominions & Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald warned the House of Commons that Britain must soon find a policy to increase her birth rate for the "highest imperial reasons." "I confess I cannot do anything about it," added Mr. MacDonald, a bachelor...
...network had been able to guarantee a sponsor much advertising coverage outside the U. S. and Canada until last week, when NBC picked up its 166th affiliate-station CMQ (Havana). Appearance of station CMQ on the NBC rate card moved Cubans out of the eavesdropping fringe right into the U. S. radio listening family. For $200 a sponsor can buy one hour on station CMQ, and the Cubans will throw in an additional, concurrent hour on short-wave station COCQ (Havana), bringing in additional South and Central American listeners...