Word: use
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of gold for all practical purposes determines the exchange value of the dollar. If the Secretary should choose to pay $40 an oz. for gold instead of $35 he would in effect devalue the dollar. If he should choose to change the price daily or hourly he could use the power for much the same purpose as the Stabilization Fund. Therefore when the money bill failed to pass, the Administration was placed in no serious hole, nor did Congress recover any notable power previously delegated. The real issue between the President and Congress was: Who is boss...
Meantime, WPA, PWA, Congress and the U. S. Department of Justice peered more intently than ever into the use of Federal funds and the status of certain income taxes in Louisiana. Attorney Gen eral Frank Murphy in Washington intimated that he had known for weeks of matters amiss in Baton Rouge. Recently Mr. Murphy accepted an honorary de gree from...
...racketeers (including crooked politicians). He wants the Middle Classers to fight back. He wants to start a newspaper, a magazine, a radio forum. Joiners will pay 2? per day dues. The Middlers' revolutionary committee (headed for the time being by Professor Pitkin) was urged by the professor to "use the nonpolitical organizations you already have, such as Rotary, Kiwanis, teachers' federations, labor organizations and all the rest; have a clearing house and through it make an analysis of the problems, air them and apply corrective measures. If you want to turn on the heat, turn on the light...
...National Association of Broadcasters last fortnight sent the following advice to its 400-odd member stations: -"Any member considering the use of programs offered by the American Civil Liberties Union or the National Association of Manufacturers should write to Headquarters for information about these...
...Also free to any broadcaster who will use them are the National Association of Manufacturers' two radio programs, items in its $750,000-a-year campaign to get the Government off U. S. business' neck. One of these programs, a dramatic serial called The American Family Robinson, is over four years old, goes out twice a week or oftener over 250 stations by electrical Tanscription, talks Alger-book homilies, free enterprise and the American...