Word: tration
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having hit upon the 1829-37 Adminis-tration of hard-shelled, practical old Andrew Jackson as its prototype in U. S. history, the New Deal has made the seventh President's birthday a national political fiesta. Last week, at 36 Jackson Day dinners all over the U. S., $400,000 was raised (wiping out the deficit of the Democratic Party) and New Deal spokesmen let out a chorus of oratory matchless in volume. Unfortunately the Jackson Day chorus-instead of proving an overwhelming performance for which the antimonopoly speeches of Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Assistant Attorney General...
...Washington sentiments more refined but no less friendly to Ethiopia were conveyed by that snowy-crested Tennesseean, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to pained and noncommittal Italian Ambassador Augusto Russo. Mr. Hull, putting his very soul into the word, said that the Adminis-tration was "concerned." That he should be so, retorted Italian Government officials next day, caused them to be "surprised" and there the matter rested, except that Benito Mussolini gave one of his now extremely rare direct quotation interviews to Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor Jr. of the St. Louis Star-Times...
...things the present Adminis-tration may be remembered for is the books its members have written. Last week its Minister to Denmark, Ruth Bryan Owen, contributed her offering to the growing pile. Not strictly a New Dealer, the daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan eschewed politics and economics, confined herself to weather, scenery, sights. Her little book was the record of a semi-official trip last year to Denmark's biggest colony. Greenland...
Edward Wight Washburn, chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Standards until his recent death, showed how electrolysis could be used to get a fairly high conce tration of heavy water. Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California later devised a series of electrolyses to produce almost pure heavy water. At Princeton, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor made three ounces of heavy water whose density could not be increased by repeated refinements, concluded he had pure deuterium oxide. Meanwhile heavy water's first fabulous cost of $150 per gram (about $37,500 for a glassful...
...this same year, the Coolidge adminis-tration was urging industries to organize into trade associations. "In them," said no less a personage than Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, "lies a road for the elimination of vast waste . . . without destroying competition...