Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Harrison spent the night roughing out a draft of the measure the President wanted so badly. He told the Senate that he did not think there would be time for any hearings. His Finance Committee refused to approve the bill until he could fill in the draft and support it with detailed Treasury estimates. While Senators and Representatives mumbled and grumbled against such haste, Treasury experts worked all the second night figuring what the bill would mean in dollars & cents...
...preparation of a site and authorized the erection at private expense of a monument to Grover Cleveland, a Democratic President who, in an earlier depression, vetoed every bill he thought was unconstitutional, fought bitterly with Congress to maintain the gold dollar, and declared that "though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people." ¶ The Treasury presented the President with figures on New Deal operations for fiscal 1935, concluded last week...
...only justice to the holders of our currency and of our securities who support and rely on our policy of equal and uniform treatment to all, but also the interests of our entire people require that the Government of the United States make it clear that it cannot and will not consent to the use of its courts in aid of efforts to sabotage the operations of government or in aid of private speculation...
...turned out, sole witness to support garrulous, bespectacled, aging Mr. Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister...
...Register & Tribune is Republican, but not blindly so. It did not support Warren Hardins and it favors many a Democrat for State office. It defended Henry Wallace's AAA reduction program as a temporary measure, flayed NRA. It sponsored the League of Nations, World Court, low tariffs...