Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the U. S. Treasury last week, as usual, stood the time-mellowed, unsmiling bronze statue of First Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Inside, as usual, sat time-harried, unsmiling Henry Morgenthau Jr., 50th Secretary...
Over the whole U. S., however, there was not this same rosy, reciprocal glow. In October Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas complained in a letter to Mr. Hull that the proposed Argentine trade agreement would injure the U. S. farmer and cattleman. Last week he got back a restrained but politely savage answer that it was "folly compounded" for farm spokesmen in the light of the Smoot-Hawley tariff experience, "still to cling to the delusion that the farmer has something to gain from embargo or tariffs...
...same token, most effective South American missionary in the U. S. last week was a brown-skinned bead-burdened bombshell named Carmen Miranda, who last week continued to pack them in on Broadway with her hot Portuguese singing, the international language of rolling hips and eyes...
...Last week no Democrat, high or low, New or Old Deal, cared to take his political life in his hands, suggest brutal tax increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...Last week a new author took over the old plot, streamlined it, added exciting new characters, put a punch in every scene. Author of this revised version was a bulky, mustached Yale professor, a Don but no Quixote, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Since the construction industry protractedly has proved it cannot cure its own ills, Mr. Arnold sees only one alternative-action under the antitrust laws (which he enforces...