Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition can be thus persuaded to lie down and die, so much the better for the Democratic, party. But while the leading candidates are bickering over the nomination, Mr. Hoover has kept the spotlight on the real problem of showing up the basic fallacies of the New Deal. His recent bursts of oratory have done much to guide the party's policy and to set the Republicans on their feet for a successful campaign...
...Roosevelt, with more candour than tact, in her recent press conference put her finger right on the ultimate function of such an organization. In expressing the hope that the movement would bring down to earth many false notions concerning patriotism and loyalties, the first lady has expressed the increasingly ardent wish of many Americans. If the self-righteous Legionnaires and the Daughters of the American Revolution, or, as S. N. Behrman has called them, "the women with the affiliated bodies," cannot be persuaded to desert the high seats they have arrogated to themselves, as a last resort they must...
...relatives. One was his firstborn, James. The other was his 72-year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight ago, is the honorary (payless) chairmanship of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank...
...with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...
...delegation of "sold-out bulls"-traders who bought for the advance but were scared by its speed. They took good profits, then wryly watched their favorite issues double, treble, sometimes quadruple in value after they had disposed of them. Some stocks stood still, some are now far below their recent highs and a few actually declined. But, after each little dip in the market, prices in general have gone...