Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democratic government, bestowed upon us by centuries of human struggle, should not be so hastily scuttled. "In the public press you are credited on a number of occasions with stating that you were going in as receiver of the City of New York and that the city is in virtual receivership and on the verge of bankruptcy and financial chaos. . . . The City of New York is not in receivership; it is not on the verge of bankruptcy." Point of Governor Lehman's vehemence was that he himself had sat down last summer with Manhattan bankers and arranged for loans...
...separate AAA staff to avoid having to deal with the Braintrusters. Unable on his part to oust Mr. Frank, one of his most outright opponents, he had retained at his own expense Frederic Lee as his personal counsel. First result of the two factions working at cross purposes was virtual sabotage of the AAA program. The Braintrusters held up codes for packers and food distributors because they wanted stiff provisions to socialize those industries. Mr. Peek held back on crop restriction plans because he wanted more efforts made to export surpluses...
Lamed Horses, Troubles on the Federal front also helped to send leading liquor shares into a deep, dark nose-dive on the New York Stock Exchange last week. First hint had come when a virtual embargo was clamped on liquor imports. It was learned that President Roosevelt had listened sympathetically to a Brain Trust idea of forming a government corporation to handle the entire wholesale liquor business. When the distillers submitted a code of fair competition, they saw it thrown in the wastebasket. Last week they were asked to accept a code, drawn by a special Roosevelt committee, which imposed...
...Virtual censorship of the nation's movies, and supervision of film actor's salaries will be exercised by President Lowell, Marie Dressler, and Eddie Cantor, it was indicated in a statement of General Hugh S. Johnson yesterday. President Roosevelt had asked the former Harvard head to meet with the two Hollywood players...
...virtual resetting of the bricks which was begun early last summer was completed only last week, most of the work being done by the Maintenance Department at the expense of the University. During the summer the Department is understood to have had 15 masons working at six dollars a day for three months on this and other repair jobs of a similar nature. At this price the sum would come to something over $8000 for the summer's repairs on defective brick laying...