Word: selling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted the Neutrality Act revised to let the U. S. sell war supplies to France and England. (Three years ago pollees favored embargoes on war material...
Texas, with oil, beef, cotton and wool to sell, was not blind to the possible profits war would bring. With military aviation booming at San Antonio, Texas was well aware how near war might be. But let it be Europe's war, said Texas, "We can keep out of it . . . Roosevelt better watch his step." But Texas agreed with Franklin Roosevelt on getting ready...
...ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production itself, therefore are constitutional. Also affected: cotton, corn, wheat, rice...
...five minutes each. Gunner de Gayner never knew David Siqueiros, but he had the same inspiration about seven years ago, has been getting so good at his specialty (pictures of clipper ships) that several have been sold. "The artists still think it's cheese," said he, "but dealers sell it and that's the big thing. I wouldn't be caught dead with a brush in my hand...
...Followers of Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin picketed radio stations which decline to sell time to the radio priest; sat in a Manhattan courtroom where a Jew was arraigned for interfering with the sale of Social Justice in the subway; heckled a Jew who charged, at a legislative hearing in Boston, that Father Coughlin uses Nazi propaganda material. Militant Coughlinites wear three kinds of buttons: one showing their leader's picture, the others the cross of the "Christian Front." The latter organization was founded by the Paulist Fathers, who disowned it when it became anti-Semitic...