Word: revampings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessels to their fleets. . . . Japan today invades China. Inspired by race hatred she will plan tomorrow against white men. We face the danger of a race war!" Since II Duce's personal prestige-his Italian "honor"-is involved in the success or failure of his plan to revamp the League of Nations, Sir John required all his suavity to arrange a graceful exit from Rome. "Reform of the League of Nations," said he, "can be interpreted to mean either strengthening the League or weakening the League. My personal view is that the problem can only be taken up with...
Crisis came when Elizabeth Christman. secretary-treasurer of National Women's Trade Union League, arose with a resolution to revamp the Federation's traditional but awkward and archaic structure. She proposed a committee of seven "to map out general plans and policies for strengthening the united action of the regular craft unions, and at the same time for extending organization into those industries in which the present form of organization has obviously not been successful." The committee report on Miss Christman's resolution was likely to be epochal for the Federation...
Illinois' false start toward a sales tax left the State's unemployment relief program practically stranded. More and heavier borrowing from the U. S. looked like the only way out until the State could revamp its tax machinery to circumvent constitutional objections...
This extraordinary borrowing is obviously not yet completed. Nobody knows exactly how many more billions Mr. Woodin will need to buy preferred stock in reopened banks, to relieve unemployment, to do over Muscle Shoals and the Tennessee Valley, to refinance farm and home mortgages, to reforest hills, to revamp railroads, to boost wheat, cotton and other prices. Selling a huge bond issue will not be easy until the public knows i) that the ordinary Budget is balanced; 2) what limit is going to be set on extraordinary expenditures...
...that this was done to permit the President to dismiss the lot without notice and end operations overnight if his farm experiment proved a failure. Many a member flayed the measure as the worst ever, but announced his support of it on the theory that the Senate would probably revamp...