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...loophole, in case the Empire countries should eventually desire to embark on Rooseveltian finance, Chancellor Chamberlain, who continued to keep sterling steady against the French franc and other European gold standard currencies last week, inserted in the declaration that "the United Kingdom Government has no commitments to other countries regarding the future management of sterling and retains complete freedom of action in this respect...
Vital to the coal business, the decision was significant for all business because it was one of the Supreme Court's most liberal interpretations of the anti-trust laws. The emphasis it placed on the social purposes of a business combination coincided with a prime Rooseveltian motto: "It's not what you do, but how you do it." If Franklin should follow Theodore in holding that there are "good" trusts and "bad'' trusts, the executive arm of the Government would be in complete agreement with the Judicial arm. Dicta of the Chief Justice...
...friends," began the easy Rooseveltian voice in countless homes, ". . . when you deposit money in a bank, the bank does not put the money into a safe deposit vault. It invests your money, puts it to work. . .. What, then, happened? There was a general rush so great that the soundest banks could not get enough currency to meet the demand. ... It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nationwide bank holiday. . . . The second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers...
...shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
...Sarasota, Fla. Son of a Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury...