Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, farmers as a class . . . seem to be aware that their present unhappy condition is a result of long years of unregulated production, while they listened to gigantic schemes that high-powered statesmen have had to offer...
...Lands, Territories, Indian Affairs, Coinage, Weights & Measures. He calls himself a "Free Democrat." but is seldom not ''regular." He is friendly with Republican leaders like Speaker Longworth, Congressmen Tilson and Snell, whom he humorously denounces. He is one of the last of the old-school Demo-cratic "statesmen." He voted for: Restrictive Immigration (1923), the Soldier Bonus (1924), Farm Relief (1927. 1928), the Farm Board (1929), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929). He voted against: the Tariff (1930), Tax Reduction (1924, 1926, 1928, 1929), the Navy's 15-cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929). His vote...
When the survey is complete Mr. Ford plans to pay all his workmen throughout the world an "equivalent wage," equivalent not in gold but in what the wage will buy in the place where the worker works. Already there is anxious talk among statesmen that if Mr. Ford's program of "standardized living" goes into effect at his European plants it will provoke a social industrial revolution. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald was said to be on pins & needles lest the Ford survey soon to begin in London and in Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more...
...Europe's greatest statesmen thus flatly contradicted each other. Usually correspondents are blamed for such "mistakes," but last week the two Foreign Ministers seemed content to let their statements stand. With his usual adroitness, however, M. Briand managed to convey the impression that perhaps the real contradicter is neither himself nor Signor Grandi but a third party too potent to mention...
While other European statesmen were talking about reprisals against the U. S. tariff last week, Signor Benito Mussolini acted. He signed a Cabinet decree which appeared in the Official Gazette five days later...