Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next press conference the President modified his resistance. He called one more tax revision conference, including Pat Harrison and John Hanes, but emphasized that any course they took must: i) produce no less revenue than the present laws, 2) provide some way of preventing corporate profit hoarding...
Last week Max Hecksher and his wife arrived in Milwaukee. On the way, they had found a job in London for 17-year-old Helmut. Herr Hecksher, unbroken at 60, had just $2 in his pocket when at last he saw Rose's beaming face upon the station platform. Said he, safe in a furnished room which Rose provided...
...most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt or some other, Jim Farley will accommodate himself. Meanwhile letting a boomlet for himself get under way will not loosen his hold on the party machinery...
...Russians were quick to point out that this arrangement still left the way wide open for the British and French to attend another Munich parley (for which they have no taste). In an officially inspired editorial in Izvestia, Moscow daily newsorgan, the U. S. S. R. demanded iron-clad alliances in which nothing would be left to discussion and in which Britain, France and Russia would automatically guarantee each others' borders and those of other smaller States. Said Izvestia: "Where there is no reciprocity real collaboration cannot be brought about." Badgered by the French, the British Labor Party...
...prepared to sit by and see the independence of one country after another successively destroyed." As for Danzig, Mr. Chamberlain said he would be happy to see that question settled, but in the meantime: "If an attempt were made to change the situation by force in such a way as to threaten Polish independence, that would inevitably start a general conflagration in which this country would be involved...