Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign affairs he gives scant attention, takes no side on the World Court, Disarmament, the League of Nations. His position is that the Senate, not the House, must deal with such matters...
...receive the Prohibition Unit under his wing, predictions were heard that President Hoover would have to use more pressure, unceasing and determined, to induce Congress to act on this legislation. Senator Borah was ominously silent on all the Wickersham recommendations. Senator Norris insisted that they required "a great deal of study." Senator La Follette was already in open opposition. He called the Report a ''wedge being driven into the Constitution." Only such unswerving Drys as Ohio's Senator Fess gave blanket approval...
Tactless newsgatherers stabbed with questions. Cadet Parham, more tactful than they, replied: "I got a square deal. I was given very good treatment. The officers were my friends and cadets, too, both from the North and South." Had he been happy? "Well, take any young fellow away from home out where men are men. He's going to be lonesome and homesick sometimes. Some of them resigned." Would he make a racial issue of his failure? "I should...
Chief of Mr. Mackay's arguments for coördination was that it would raise rate-lowering and service-bettering economy. Although admitting the proposed I. T. & T.-Radio deal would mean more competition against Western Union, he claimed to be so merger-minded that he would rather even see Radio side with Western Union than continued disorder among U. S. communication companies...
However, Dr. Curtius had two bright ideas about how to deal with Dr. Schacht. First he proceeded to ignore him, assured the Allies that if the Reichsbank would not subscribe Germany's share of the B. I. S. capital, then the Prussian State Bank ("Preussische Staatsbank") and the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft would. Secondly he ordered his legal experts to search through the traveling library of documents which all diplomatic delegations carry and find a way to oust the obstreperous Reichsbank President, if necessary. A good lawyer enjoys nothing so much as trying to find...