Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate allowed Mr. Morgan and other witnesses $3 per day and railroad fare. *Erroneous is the widespread belief that the Federal Reserve Act grew out of the Pujo in-vestigation...
...national emergency productive of widespread unemployment and disorganization of industry ... is hereby declared to exist...
...Widespread is the expectation that sooner or later President Roosevelt plans to overhaul the R. F. C., both as to principle and personnel, restore its lost prestige, integrate it in his broad industrial program. Presumably, tall, pokerfaced Jesse Jones, the Democracy's host when Al Smith was nominated at Houston in 1928, is the President's choice for chief financial reconstructor when the blueprints are ready...
...Department of Agriculture and Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. in the R. F. C., Columbia professors both. Senators and Representatives privately denounce them as "second-raters" who command no widespread academic respect, flay them as radical theorists who are about to strangle the U. S. Government to death. Oft-repeated are the predictions that some day the power of the "Brain Trust" over the White House will cause a terrific rebellion within the party against its leader. But Dr. Moley, jealous of his close association with the President, is no radical. He believes in economic planning-just as Herbert Hoover...
...onetime (1916-21) Viceroy of India and (1924) First Lord of the Admiralty; of a heart attack; in London. A onetime Governor of Queensland and of New South Wales, he was appointed Viceroy while serving as captain of a territorial battalion in a remote corner of India. Faced with widespread native unrest, he, with the late Edwin Samuel Montagu, in 1918 sponsored the plan which brought limited home rule to India, has since been the keystone of British policy there...