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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, Franklin Roosevelt had outsmarted not only the timid Republican minority but his own followers. His dispassionate tone, his modest admission of faults in NRA, his intimation that a constitutional amendment was not necessary were all mildly reasonable. He did not speak of making the Supreme Court keep step with New Deal aims but of bringing "legislative and judicial action into closer harmony." He did not demand, as he did in his horse & buggy declaration, that the Supreme Court swing into line, but said that the judiciary "is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mopping Up | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...program will close Thursday afternoon with an address given by Anna Louise Strong of Russia, who will speak on "The Far East--Is War Inevitable?" Miss Strong has crossed many frontiers during the past months and the discussion will concern "The People's Front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15TH FOREIGN AFFAIRS SCHOOL TO COMMENCE TUESDAY AT RADCLIFFE | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

...program will begin with a discussion of the Political Consequences of Economic Policies. Under this heading John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard and a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, will speak on "The International Consequences of Stabilization Agreements," while Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission, will talk on "The International Consequences of Reciprocal Trade Treaties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15TH FOREIGN AFFAIRS SCHOOL TO COMMENCE TUESDAY AT RADCLIFFE | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

...leadership of William Y. Elliott, Professor of Government at Harvard, the following spokesmen, each representing a political philosophy, will participate: Fascism, Judge Felix Forte; Communism, George Blake, New England Secretary of Organization, Communist Party; Nationalism, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, widely experienced in international adjustments and policies; Professor Elliott will speak for Democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15TH FOREIGN AFFAIRS SCHOOL TO COMMENCE TUESDAY AT RADCLIFFE | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

...Congress of Mr. Roosevelt's startling message, the average citizen may have fair cause to tremble and wonder what is really happening at the White House. Probably some of the distinguished senators on Capitol Hill are also apprehensive of the President's latest scheme, and if they dare to speak at the facts behind the shrewd dialectics of the Brownlow Committee, they may find Mr. Roosevelt adding buckets of water to his basin of power. Soon the whole country must know whether the President has at last expressed his true intentions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLDING UP THE MIRROR | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

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