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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earlier in the week at Tokyo, Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie had conceded to Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita recognition of "hostilities on a large scale" and the "special requirements of the Japanese forces in China." Although Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain disagreed, to almost everybody else Great Britain had taken a diplomatic licking...
These were the spoils of the vanquished and Wendell Willkie deserves most of the credit for winning them. Other businessmen have fought tongue-tied and embarrassed before the Congressional committee, have sued in the courts and taken their licking. In the courts Willkie has taken his beating with the rest, but he has seldom come off second best in sparring before committees or in political debate. Resourceful, informed, more publicly articulate than any big U. S. businessman today, he turned committee hearings into promotion for his own political-economic doctrines. He emerged from his fights bigger in public stature than...
...effectiveness of his fight is shown by two facts: 1) that Congress is now highly critical of TVA and similar projects-and the whole yardstick idea has taken a political beating, 2) that Wendell Willkie (a lifelong Indiana Democrat) is today the only businessman in the U. S. who is ever mentioned as a Presidential possibility...
...Crowley. FDIC's own figures looked good enough at first glance. In five years the corporation has had to pay out $21,000,000 to cover expenses and to make good average losses of 16% of the deposits of 252 insured banks that closed or were taken over. Meantime FDIC has taken in $167,400,000 ($124,200,000 of it from ½ of 1% assessments on bank deposits, $43,200,000 from its investments and profits). Result: FDIC has a surplus of $131,244,960, of which $36,043,673 was added last year...
...talk back on the next Roosevelt broadcast, the radio priest demurred. Said he, it would be "undignified" for him to aid the sale of Emerson products. Then big Mutual offered to put him on at its own expense. Father Coughlin again demurred, explained that Elliott Roosevelt would be taken care of by his "spokesman," Father Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn's International Catholic Truth Society, on the regular Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting of the Air on "Americanism" last year, concluded that...