Word: setup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose 408,000 members in 40 States are a more united force than the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, 62-year-old Ed O'Neal has been since 1931 the most influential farm leader in the land. When Henry Wallace projected AAA which required a nation-wide executive setup to estimate crop acreages, the Farm Bureau's 1,800 functioning county organizations stepped into the breach and Ed O'Neal stepped into the Administration. Although the New Deal's lavish benefit payments helped all farm organizations, they helped big Farm Bureau Federation most. When the Supreme...
...closing, he emphasized the closeness or relationship between the various phases of the same economic setup. If one part is altered, it may affect the pattern of the entire policy...
...last week and clicked together in the unified "big push" which Japanese spokesmen had been daily heralding for so long that Shanghai correspondents were becoming incredulous. In Tokyo the Ministers of the Army and Navy are not responsible to the Premier but only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country zone outside Shanghai so sharply that it would be impossible for Chinese forces to continue to hold Chapei in the urban zone (see map, p. 19). Tazang...
...public service in Washington. When he gathered his commission,* the personnel of the old Shipping Board, and a few trusted aides who had been with him in SEC, and set to work, only 75 days remained before the deadline set by Congress for expiration of the old Shipping Board setup of the U. S. merchant marine...
...situation in France was an obvious setup for strife. A Premier popular with large elements of the masses, Leon Blum had resigned fortnight ago under middle-class pressure exerted by the Senate. Here & there in Paris last week groups of workers drifted about raising such plaintive cries as "Blum to Power!" Nobody of importance in France paid the least attention at this stage of the game, least of all Communist Leader Maurice Thorez and Socialist Leader Blum himself. These two had decided upon a policy of lying low for the present, letting the more moderate new Premier of France, genial...