Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breeze. The $3,019,000,000 is relief money: mainly $1,250,000,000 for WPA, $965,000,000 for PWA (plus a $500,000,000 revolving fund to be used for loans to States & cities), $175,000,000 to the Farm Security Administration. As such it represented the rest of the program proposed by Franklin Roosevelt a month ago, except for the $300,000,000 for slum clearance...
Since joining the Court last year, Hugo LaFayette Black has been its most spectacular dissenter. In his total of 13 dissents he has entered nine solitary dissents to four for Justice McReynolds, one each for Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed the liberal tone of Justice Black's dissenting opinions, particularly one in which he contradicted the Court's 50-year-old interpretation of the 14th Amendment as applying to corporations.* Last month, however, a Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year...
...Virginia, great & good foe of Franklin Roosevelt's heavy spending program, announced he would soon quit Washington, return home to Lynchburg. Friends gave two reasons: 1) he is disgusted with the turn of events in Congress; 2) several weeks ago his doctor told him to go home and rest...
...most deplorable evidences of the surrender to the methods of propaganda is the apathy with which the country greeted Senator Minton's proposal to restrict the freedom of newspapers to print what they regard as news. Fortunately the rest of the Senate took the Minton bill as a mere publicity stunt. But the able successor to Justice Black as inquisitor-general for the New Deal has followed up his censorship bill with a request for funds with which to investigate the owners of three prominent papers in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, simply because they have refused to Knuckle under...
...Government bonds. Of this, $709,000,000 was for the firm and partners, $139,000,000 for clients. Transactions in "other bonds" totaled $185,000,000. In stock transactions, Morgan's handled 2,738,000 shares, 140,000 of them for the firm and partners, rest for clients...