Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Howe, Roosevelt intimate and campaign strategist, will be the back office man to whom wise favor-seekers will turn. Occupying a confidential position approximating that of President Hoover's Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey, he will make his home in the White House with the Roosevelts...
...gifts" the union voted to him. Union members complained that his bodyguards beat them up, forced them to contribute to his legal defense fund, deprived them of jobs, drove them out of the local. On the side he operated a projection machine manufacturing company with which exhibitors found it wise to deal...
...deplored that the controversy which the Wilbur Committee has opened by recommending group practice for ailing humanity in the mass should now crowd out of consideration the very wise and pertinent findings of the Lowell Commission on elementary and collegiate education; but it is at the same time fortunate that the purely incidental discussion of medical mass production in this educational report appears now as an antidote to the socialistic recommendations of the majority group in the Wilbur Committee. --Herald-Tribune...
...view of Mr. Roosevelt's refusal to take any part in national affairs until after March 4, the decision which has apparently been made to postpone the conference until March or April is a wise one. While some of the monetary problems are largely non-political in nature, the larger issues at stake, the mitigation of world depression and the termination of virtual economic war, are bound up with national political policies. They depend for their solution upon a cooperative attitude on the part of this country, upon Mr. Roosevelt's sincerity in advocating reciprocal tariffs, and upon a showdown...
...prospect of modification has caused a frenzy of excitement among brewers, ex-brewers and would-be brewers There has been tall talk of hundreds of millions to be spent on expanding and modernizing present equipment. While wise-acres discounted predictions that beer would put a million jobless to work, there was no denying the fillip it would give to allied industries...