Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the sharpest criticism of the new bill comes from Senator Johnson who believes it to be unnecessarily rigid with its signal avoidance of giving the President very much discretionary power. The automatic operation of such a severe law might conceivably result in stirring up retaliatory measures or vene war with us, if the belligerent were seriously compromised by stringent trade regulations. Nevertheless, it is hard to see how any extension of the President's influence could mollify this objection if neutrality legislation is to have any teeth at all. A neutrality law on the books before war looms...
...kick in the afternoon, and the very next morning a gleaming German airliner alighted in Paris with the so-called "Economic Dictator" of the Reich, famed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and Reichsbank President, in his most honeyed and wheedling mood. Dr. Schacht can be one of the sharpest, most cutting and ruthless men in Europe, but he was all smiles as he stepped from what might just as well have been a Nazi bomber and said with irony: "Well, well, Messieurs! I have come from Berlin in only five hours. You see we are very near each other...
...Chamber's most important act, the new Bank of France set-up was its sharpest stab of lèse majeste against the entrenched French ruling class. Abolished henceforth are the Regents elected by the 200 biggest stockholders representing the so-called "200 Families." Instead, various branches of the Government appoint 16 Regents, the savings banks another, the Bank's employes "secretly elect" still another and two Regents are chosen by all the Bank's 40,000 stockholders, each having one vote, regardless of his holdings...
Even imported commodities had a part in last week's show. Rubber sold above 16½? per lb. for the first time since 1929. In one day silk shot up 5? per lb. to $1.67. The Annalist's wholesale commodity index registered the sharpest weekly gain since the 1933 inflation scare. Only items likely to be depressed by drought are meat and hides, and those only temporarily. Slaughtering of cattle in drought areas increases the immediate supply. No trade was more agog about the commodity boom last week than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual...
Accordingly, Senator Borah was allowed to write the anti-League of Nations and antimonopoly planks (although the two sharpest paragraphs of his monopoly plank were cut out in the final version). Two other planks he was allowed to veto: any reference to the gold standard in the money plank and any suggestion of a constitutional amendment to authorize State control of minimum wages. William Allen White had also to make concessions to various non-Landon members of the platform Committee. Thus with Editor White functioning as a diplomat rather than as a liberal, Landon views on the platform were largely...