Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court and otherwise, had frustrated the people's will. First instance he mentioned was the fight of 1919 by which Senator Borah and other Irreconcilables blocked U. S. entry into the League of Nations. Condemning Jefferson's old enemy, Chief Justice John Marshall, as a tool of the interests, Historian Dodd argued that most of the great People's Presidents-Jefferson, Lincoln. Cleveland. Roosevelt I and Wilson-had been frustrated by selfish minorities operating through Court decisions, Senate filibusters and Party splits. If the same thing should now happen to Franklin Roosevelt, he feared...
Believed to be the most powerful medical tool ever built, the machine was given to the clinic by the Godfrey M. Hyams Trust, was constructed and recently set up by research scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So great is the output of radiation that only one-half its rated current capacity is being used...
...turned into a seven-year Alcoa probe. At the request of the Senate in 1926 the Department of Justice investigated to see if the company was living up to the 1912 consent decree. Alcoa affairs have also been thoroughly aired in private suits such as that of Baush Machine Tool. Yet Alcoa has always received a clean bill of health...
...story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded on more than fantasy. Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board in his recent FORTUNE article on how to control booms & depressions listed manipulations of gold prices as a likely tool...
Yaleman Mason appeared to have been merely the tool of Yaleman Garland, who was known among his unsavory associates as "The Wizard." The first Garland wizardry was promotion of Automatic Signal Corp. to make his patented traffic light. Among the original investors were two du Fonts, Charles Michael Schwab, who served for a time as a director, and old Economist Fisher, who sank no less than $750,000 in the enterprise. Automatic Signal is still a going concern with Mr. Fisher trying to get his money back as board chairman...