Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first step was to gentle it with the moderate words of his Congressional message (see p. 12). He also let it have a little sugar when his Congressional leaders promised restive Representatives that they should have a chance to vote on prepayment of the Bonus. For three days he put off throwing his 1936 budget message over the Congressional back and cinching it up under the Congressional belly...
...give a hoot how many names it takes [to get the bill out of committee]. We'll get the signatures because the members of Congress want to come back to Congress and if they want to come back they'd better get in step...
...move toward a greater rather than a lesser degree of liberty than now. . . . But everything waits upon stabilization. ... As things are now nobody will invest when he cannot know what his invested money will be worth when it is returned. . . . The stabilization of currencies is unquestionably the most important step toward world recovery. It is a question for Great Britain and the United States. . . . The franc is stable. France must await the outcome of the fiscal policy of the two great monetary powers...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...professional men but civil servants. They formed a Medical Practitioners Union primarily to protect their civil service rights, but otherwise they kept aloof from the political and economic activities of other British trade unionists. Last week 3,847 members of the Medical Practitioners Union decided to take the final step. They joined the British Trades Union Congress, equivalent of the American Federation of Labor. With the Union Practitioners went the dozens of health officials who belong to the National Union of County Officers. It was as if the American Public Health Association and the Conference of State & Provincial Health Authorities...