Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was one thing calculated to console Japan and add confusion to the pandemonium about the Panay in the U. S. State Department last week, serious consideration of the Ludlow Resolution, which would tie the Government's hands in just such a crisis, was that thing. Secretary Hull promptly announced, with as much politeness as he could muster, that he was unable to perceive either "the wisdom or the practicality" of the measure. Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor denounced it as "monstrous." The President-in response to whose wishes the House Military Affairs Committee reported favorably...
...clamoring to be heard, he put an end to four weeks of haggling, took a final roll call on the Pope-McGill Farm Bill. It was passed 59-to-29. His act was a defiance of the sacred tradition of free speech in the Senate, and an eminently sensible thing to do because 1) the bill was going to be passed anyhow, 2) its form was immaterial-it and the far different House bill will be combined and rewritten in conference-and 3) the important theatre of action in farm legislation was last week far from the Senate chamber...
...today. ... In 1917 we had war. The Government . . . offered the best investment on earth, the promise to pay in gold coin. It continued to do this for ten years. Then the President and Congress denied the right to gold coin. No honest individual should be permitted to do this thing. . . . This opinion sanctions an act of fraud...
There is one thing on which we agree: With foe or with friend We will fight...
...declared that the major responsibility rested on the ICC, that rail-road economics is one of the most serious problems facing the nation, that he did not believe any member of the ICC yet had a good solution for the problem, that he himself had none. Of one thing Franklin Roosevelt was sure, however: the last thing he wanted was Government control of railroads...