Word: clausing
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...campaigned for Roosevelt in 1932, but by 1936 he could no longer contain his bitterness. He invented the term "alphabet soup" to describe the plethora of New Deal agencies, spoke for Alf Landon, and warned the U.S. sarcastically that "You can't lick Santa Claus." Then he quit politics. His last years were quiet but busy. He became Honorary Curator of the Bronx Zoo, president of the long-empty Empire State Building, a director of a half-dozen corporations. He was one of the nation's great Roman Catholic laymen, and in 1937 he visited the Vatican...
...Santa Claus consisted of a group of eight major oil companies,* who offered to turn over to the Society, lock, stock & barrel, the rich Universal Oil Products Corp. Universal is a research firm which holds patents on oil processes that yield an annual income of $1,000,000. Universal's owners paid $22,000,000 for the company in 1931, have since used it to pool research and patents. Reason for giving it away (according to well-informed oil men) : the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Universal as a possible trust, and to avoid a protracted struggle...
...much as possible, will be concentrated in Government plants, to free privately owned plants for the manufacture of civilian goods. But said Czar Jimmy soothingly, the Government has no thought of operating its plants in postwar competition with private business. And, said Byrnes, dipping deep in the Santa Claus bag, "with the ending of the war there should be an end to the excess profits...
...President Roosevelt's 1944 Santa Claus bag still rests one secret weapon: the possibility of a general wage increase for all U.S. workers...
...implacable lines set the tone for the bloody terror that still racked the Reich a fortnight after Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb under the Führer's table and blew the crisis between the Nazi Party and the Army officers wide open...