Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Challenged, in bristling manner, Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft's ability to balance the U. S. budget; offered Mr. Taft "a handsome prize" if he would show the President how it could be done.
¶ Volatile Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, was advanced by stolid Senator Edwin Johnson, Colorado Democrat, as a "liberal candidate" who might make it unnecessary "for the President to run against his will in 1940."
¶ To Third Termites were added two Oklahomans-Senator Josh Lee and former Governor Martin Edwin Trapp; also Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies.
It all started mildly last Memorial Day. Mr. Sargent had discovered a book by a Briton, Sidney Rogerson, called Propaganda in the Next War, telling how Britain might seduce the U. S. into the coming war against Germany. When U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye read a chapter from this...
The reason for this is that in September 1935 Standard failed to finance repayment of a $24,650,000 note issue, landed in a reorganization proceeding in a Delaware Federal District Court. Charges (among others) by Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal...