Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propose that if [the pledge] is given, two essential problems shall promptly be discussed. . . In those discussions the Government of the United States will gladly take part...
...more strongly than ever as a champion who, having done his best for peace, must now do his best for the Democracies; or against him more strongly than ever as an international meddler who having futilely exposed the dignity and good faith of the U. S., must now take a back seat, let the U. S. retire into its shell...
...Noble to find an excuse to show himself to the Press. Reason: Mr. Noble was about to become not only big news but a big figure in Hopkins' appeasement of U. S. Business. Ed Noble next day resigned from his $12,000-a-year job at CAA to take a $1-a-year job as executive assistant to the Secretary. With Ed Noble in mind, Franklin Roosevelt simultaneously asked Congress to create a new title: Under-Secretary of Commerce. Explained Harry Hopkins, greeting his Republican No. 2 man: "To Mr. Noble, public service transcends political partisanship...
...Representative Osmers of New Jersey introduced a bill requiring the President to take command of the Army in the field, should war come, and drafting for active service (without commissions) the Vice President, Cabinet members, war-voting members of Congress, directors of munitions companies, war-loan bankers. Any one pleading physical disability must spend the duration...
...Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal on crisis days...