Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visitors of the week at the White House were wily little President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Senate and a party of Filipino politicians. Their faction had defeated in the Philippine Legislature the first step toward independence under the Hawes-Cutting Bill. President Roosevelt entertained them at lunch, pleasantly offered to give his earnest attention to any independence plan they might formulate, when they got it written down...
...first step he proposed that the Government buy up 50,000,000 acres of land, more if need be (total farm acreage in the U. S.: 986,771,016) in four chief areas: 1) the Appalachian Highlands and Piedmont Plateau; 2) Michigan and Minnesota; 3) the western fringe of the Great Plains; 4) patches in eastern Kentucky; convert it into parks, game preserves, grazing ranges, take it out of production...
...Cake was of lady's cake, a Georgia recipe in honor of President Roosevelt's interest in Warm Springs. Around its rim were miniatures of every President from Washington to Hoover garlanded in gold laurel leaves. The secret of a Mme Blanche cake lies in its seven-step method of icing, of which the five central processes are a sturdy secret...
...capitalism. As an enthusiastic and not unbiased observer of the professional sideshow being staged by the Harvard Economics Department (de facto) and the banks versus the Columbia Economics department (de jure) and the Roosevelt legend, I cannot help but conclude that the latter group has kept more than one step ahead of the former by conjuring up a lot of cardboard windmills, notably gold buying, silver buying, and in a sense, even the N. R. A. itself, to divert the attention of the "conservative" opposition while the really important recovery measures are being taken...
...utilities. Dealers and utilities will discount instalment paper with the EH-&-FA. The RFC will then guarantee the paper up to $10,000,000 and EH-&-FA will rediscount it with local banks. At the White House it was labeled an experiment, but Government officials declared that "the next step will be to try to persuade private capital to accommodate purchasers so that the thing can be made nation-wide in scope...