Word: ernment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part 6, of the Special Committee on Investigation of Muni tions Industry, U. S. Senate, issued June 16, 1936. That evidence fortified the conclusions drawn on p. 96 of that report, namely, that the bankers were inextricably tied up in a vicious circle that included the British gov ernment, the rifle industry in the U. S. and the American Banking organization...
...public opinion in support of Sanctions and against Italy. Lord Cecil had just issued "the most serious, most urgent communication" he had ever made to the British public, declaring: "Since our honor and the future of our civilization are involved, we have the right to demand that our Gov ernment should openly declare its conviction that the Covenant of the League of Nations must be carried out. . . . Sanctions should be maintained and if necessary increased...
There was still no Senate. Oldtime politicians, accustomed to gypping the Egyptian masses, proposed to use the Gov ernment's "temporary sovereign rights" to open the late King's envelope and let the Government of Premier Aly Maher Pasha appoint two-fifths of a new Senate. Had there been a strong new King at hand, Premier Maher Pasha might have done...
...Despite strong hints to U. S. news services by German spokesmen that their Gov ernment expects an official apology from Washington for the Bremen flag incident and Federal action to force a license for "Mr. K." from Mayor LaGuardia, the only result was that the Mayor said he "would abide by the State Department's decision" if it should rule on "Mr. K." To Germans it was occult that New York Representative Samuel Dickstein should have risen in Congress latt week to call Realmleader Hitler a madman, a mur derer and the protagonist of an insane theory of government...
...financial legislation; to devise remedial measures for a deranged cu rency; to make forecasts and prepare estimates in days when financial responsibility was diffused ... to trim the sails of fiscal policy to political winds; to market the huge loans which constituted the chief reliance of an improvident Gov ernment." For all the years between them those words about Secretary Chase may well have a familiar ring to Secretary Morgenthau...