Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly he sat back in his chair. He declared that he never commented on pending legislation-and the correspondents were too flabbergasted to argue the assertion. He gave them pointedly to understand that they were not to draw inferences from his refusal to comment- such inferences were 99% wrong. By the time he had finished, the newshawks had seen a new side of their hitherto cheery President. Abashed, they filed out in silence. Sole cause for the outburst was that at a previous conference, he had denied that he would ask for State NRA to supplement...
...make, not merely 21 nor any such conveniently small number. . . . There is only one sign post: China can't get along without Japan; Japan can't get along peacefully without China. This sign post the Chinese must not only be able to see, but must also understand and believe...
...enable the technical man to understand the social and political considerations of his government work...
...after nearly two years' time he realized that the advantages given Recovery by its nurse, the Government, were not enough. He must after all rely on its parent, Business, to look after it. Early this winter Donald Richberg and the President's chief advisors were given to understand that Business was to be encouraged and not squelched when it approached the nursery. That understanding is still in force...
...legislative leaders a 20,000-word bill which in one form or another is almost sure to be the Banking Act of 1935. Most significant banking measure since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the bill was so technical that no one except a banking expert could hope to understand it in detail. Nevertheless, its objective was crystal clear-unchallenged Federal control of the nation's currency and credit. It did not establish a central bank such as money-fanatics like Senator Elmer Thomas and Father Coughlin have been yammering for. But if the bill is enacted in anything...