Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answered the President gaily: "You just send in a request for the appropriation and I'll put it through...
While the Senate debated his $1,500,000,000 Navy Expansion Bill, the President added a request for an additional $25,000,000 to provide for starting work on two more battleships-which would bring the total currently planned or under construction to nine...
...Implication was that they would be followed by a similarly vehement message from the President to Congress, suggesting revision of U. S. anti-trust laws. Anxiously awaited by Business ever since, the business monopoly message from the nation's greatest governmental monopolist finally appeared last week. A detailed request for Congressional investigation of the whole subject of monopoly as a preliminary to future legislation to curtail it, it was chiefly noteworthy for a tone as mild as Messrs. Ickes & Jackson had been bitter...
...officers had consulted Labor Leaders John L. Lewis and Homer Martin, New Dealers Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen. Unhappy Mr. Fahy quickly asked leave to withdraw the Ford order, whereupon the board would issue a "preliminary" finding, make it available to Mr. Wood for argument, and again request the Circuit Court to enforce the amended order without reopening the entire case. While less than 2% of NLRB cases appeared to be affected by the decision, an important legal principle had been uncovered by astute Mr. Wood, one which could cause the New Deal much irritation...
...accounts Richard Whitney & Co. had always avoided this). Dick Whitney tried to bluff his way through by submitting fake figures, but the Exchange sent accountants to his office. This time, Brother George was in Florida, so Dick ran to Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island to see J. P. Morgan himself. "Mr. Morgan was shocked beyond measure. He gave me his judgment that there was no course...