Word: stranglehold
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...Representatives passed S. 3487, the Senate bill to make direct Government loans to industry. Agitation for such a measure began under the Hoover Administration during the depths of Depression. At that time it seemed radical enough to be killed off with the warning that a political party with a stranglehold on credit to private enterprise could perpetuate itself in power. But small and tame beside other New Deal measures last week looked S. 3487 as amended by the House, with its authorization for the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to lend up to $140,000,000 and RFC to lend...
...places where they are needed. The need for such a centralization has been amply demonstrated by the recent bank robberies which revealed the inability of the local authorities to cope with major crimes. Everyone agrees that centralization in needed but the petty politicians, ever fearful of losing their stranglehold on police forces, say that the proposal is too "radical," and would jeopardize the independence of the local authorities. This objection is too shallow to be taken seriously; the plain fact is that centralization is needed and the bill suggests the only practical manner of obtaining it. The bill would also...
...galloped the London Daily Mail, lead horse of Lord Rothermere's huge team of British newspapers, last week on a Fascist crusade. Pear-headed Lord Rothermere wrote the Mail's clarion call to young Britons "to break the stranglehold which senile politicians have so long maintained on public affairs." The man to do it. he said, is Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, leader of Britain's Fascist Black Shirts, a man '"willing to act with the same directness of purpose and energy of method as Mussolini and Hitler have displayed." Predicted Lord Rothermere who has long felt...
...Detroit, Jews were irate because, at a Catholic conference on Industrial Problems, President George Hermann Derry of Detroit's Marygrove College (Catholic) had said: "A few international Jews hold a stranglehold on the world supply of gold that enables them to decide the destiny of nations, to make and unmake cabinets, and to rule the fate of mankind...
...break the "stranglehold of the present," as Mr. Demos vividly describes it, the past is the most effective weapon. For the present is the product of the past and the promise of the future. In order to live wisely in the present moment it is necessary to have a sense of the continuity of time and an awareness of the fact that those who made history, wrote books and created ideas were fully alive in their present. That is the teacher's function; to awaken and communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because...