Word: system
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this limited delivery and this one gesture he kept the Republican Party alive in the Senate from 1934 to 1939. He developed a new system of attack on the New Deal. Instead of useless frontal offensives, Vandenberg went along with the New Deal far enough to find the flaws; then by reading and study mastered the technical answers to those flaws; then amended constructively. In this way he exposed the "dangers" of the Social Security's so-called $47,000,000,000 old-age reserve fund of the future. Similarly he won smashing victories over Franklin Roosevelt when...
...ready to try. Key Pittman convened the pro-repealers among his Foreign Relations Committee steadily over the weekend, came to a full committee meeting Monday with a tightly knitted bill sharply defining U. S. neutrality, generally limiting the President's powers, but re-establishing the cash-and-carry system for trade with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase. With this before them, Vandenberg and the Opposition groomed for the latest Battle of a Century of many battles. On strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts...
...account of the torpedoed world Monetary and Economic Conference in London 1933. In it, Author Moley makes out Cordell Hull a simpleton let down by his Chief, the President a pitiable ignoramus "saying two plus two made ten" who didn't know beans about the international money system which he blew sky high...
...doubly locked and bolted. Within France along the Belgian border runs an extension of the Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe of trenches and pillboxes. Behind the fort system runs a "Little Maginot Line" constructed with French...
There was a good deal of passing in yesterday's scrimmage, particularly in the last twenty minutes, as Harlow sought to polish the jagged edges off his aerial attack. The experience in handling a wet ball will come in handy, since the Harlow system, based on precision and deception rather than on powerhouse tactics, has often bogged down in the rain...