Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--In an apparent attempt to strengthen the New Deal's fight against acute agricultural conditions, and quiet mounting criticism of Administration Farm legislation, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace late today ordered sweeping personnel and administrative changes in his department...
...Hitler, who appropriates the democratic idea of self-determination to strengthen a totalitarian regime, really wanted peace he would not insist that so complex a problem as the transfer of Sudetenland be settled in so short a time. He would readily permit calm negotiations to bridge the gap between his "final" memorandum and Benes' "promise...
...genuine and in part successful attempt to strengthen the masses of people of limited means against those with more economic power...
...foregoing facts were recited last week by the National Labor Relations Board as sufficient reason for requiring the associations to deal as a coast-wide unit with Mr. Bridges' union which won the support of 75% of West Coast longshoremen. Immediate effect was to strengthen Longshoreman Bridges, C. I. O. & Co. in their warming wrangle with Sailor Harry Lundeberg, A. F. of L. & Co. Furthermore, 900 A. F. of L. longshoremen in Tacoma and nearby Puget ports now must 1) go to court, 2) deal through Bridges, or 3) give up their jobs to Bridges...
Since the terms of Senator Robert Wagner and Governor Lehman are both expiring, the death of Senator Royal S. Copeland fortnight ago left the most populous State's three biggest political jobs to be filled at once. Because Governor Lehman was drafted against his will to strengthen the New Deal ticket in 1936 and then did not prove as big a vote-getter as the President, the assumption was that he would step aside in favor of another gubernatorial candidate, possibly popular Bob Wagner. While Franklin Roosevelt's lieutenants pondered what would be the best political line...