Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prac tically no limitation on the appropriating power of Congress except that which is imposed by conscience and a sense of duty. ... I would hide my face in shame if I held that there is no power save that possessed by those who are helpless to face the storm and peril...
While Franklin Roosevelt was on his South American trip last December his Relief Administration raised a storm. It announced that it was going to cut WPA expenditures to $152,000.000 a month, try to cut 150,000 reliefers off the rolls, make local governments pay a larger share of WPA costs. The U. S. Conference of Mayors went into a dither, reliefers staged sit-down strikes, and Harry Hopkins had quickly to back water, announcing, "No one who needs Relief will be dropped" (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week when the House received the Deficiency Bill appropriating Relief funds...
...lick General Motors and was turned down (see p. 11). On another arrived Dr. Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, onetime Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, one of the President's South American friends, who had flown up to attend the inauguration but was delayed by storm in Santo Domingo. In quick succession followed other important matters: the President asked Congress to extend the expiring Reciprocal Trade Act; Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee popped up with a new neutrality bill; hard-headed Walter Runciman, proprietor of the Isle of Eigg and president of the British Board...
...promotion of consumer co-operatives at the hands of unscrupulous and skillful demagogs." Another "public interest" discussed by the retailers was the rapid rise in installment selling. While total dry goods sales last year were up about 12%, time sales were up a whacking 33%. Seconding the storm warning raised by other speakers, Accountant...
Internal trouble in Japan rather than war may be the first storm to break in the Far East, said Professor G. N. Steiger of Simmons College in a talk yesterday afternoon at Brooks House before the Society of Harvard Dames. He devoted the first part of his address, entitled "Storm Signals in the Far East" to basic conditions in Russia, China, and Japan...