Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty" was a much-quoted squib in Washington during the first New Deal, when Professor Raymond Moley was indeed mighty in the Brain Trust. While Mr. Moley was serving Franklin Roosevelt and accumulating a reputation for vanity, he was also storing away a vast stock of personal notes, memoranda and unwritten recollections. Last week the written sum of it appeared in book form, a good 20 years before Franklin Roosevelt might normally have expected himself and his early administration to be thus exposed from within...
...grumbling about all this simply was out. And the French mood last week was such that any element which could possibly be called subversive was under pressure of cracking weight. Leon Blum, the Socialist leader who three years ago gave France a brief "New Deal" as Premier, wrote in his Le Populaire: "I appeal to the Communist chiefs, and I adjure them once more-let them cry out to the country that their pact with Moscow is broken, that Stalin's stab in the back has freed them from their pledges, that all is finished between them and Moscow...
...whether J. Stalin is minded to join A. Hitler in partitioning Rumania at leisure. Well King Carol knows that after the vast province of Bessarabia was carved out of Russia at the end of World War I and given to Rumania, two Great Powers refused to recognize this Allied Deal, namely the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. President Wilson thought the deal too raw because Russia was not represented at the Peace Conference. Bessarabia consists of 17,000 square miles of marshland, forests and rich black earth inhabited by some 3,000,000 Ukrainians, Moldavians, Tartars, Ruthenians...
...direction, it would be chopped off by Britain and France-on paper at least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
...Deal. If businessmen don't like Franklin Roosevelt, they do not indiscriminately condemn New Deal measures. Their votes on which measures should be kept, modified or repealed ("Don't knows" not listed...