Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for last week. Nationwide reaction was total apathy. When the Reorganization Plan emerged on the Senate floor a month ago, instantaneous reaction of Congress and a large section of the U. S. press and public was a horrified suspicion that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to make himself a dictator. Reason for this superficially bewildering paradox was, of course, that the Court Plan, brought up and beaten since the Reorganization Bill's inception, looked enough like a grab for power to make anything remotely resembling another power grab doubly alarming and doubly vulnerable...
...Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Europe's most unorthodox and potent economic prestidigitator. He has kept on for so many years pulling steel and cannon out of the hat of virtually busted Germany, that what he can do with a Greater Germany, now not quite so busted by reason of the addition of Austria, simply remains to be seen. Dr. Schacht took Austria's gold last week as a matter of course and no Austrian protest was recorded...
...very strong group of extreme Nationalists or Fascists," announced a 5,000,000-yen ($1,450,000) budget for a Tokyo Olympic village. On his way to Cairo, Egypt, where the International Olympic Committee was shortly to convene, Japan's Delegate Jigoro Kano snorted: "I know of no reason for anyone saying anything about abandoning the games. The war in China? That's nothing...
Threatened last week with "meet and proper" disciplinary action by his union (Local 802 of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York) was Dr. Walter Damrosch, venerable symphony conductor. Reason: He had charged that the union has created unemployment by trying to maintain high wages, that there are only 2,000 good musicians among its 15,000 members...
...commission had been rent by squabbles over patronage, office furniture, other trivia connected with its primary purpose of setting up minimum prices for soft coal. Franklin Roosevelt refused to accept it. Last week, however, when Chairman Hosford once more submitted his resignation, Franklin Roosevelt did accept it. The reason was clear-the Coal Commission has made an unholy botch...