Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cross. The Red Cross has been trying for years to get him to adhere to its Geneva Convention-i. e. to pledge that Ethiopians will not fight with unrestrained barbarity or fire on Red Cross units succoring the enemy. Last week the Emperor again indicated that neither his Govern-ment nor any authority whatsoever can hope to prevent Ethiopians from castrating wounded or captured Italians...
...Stevens platform designed to implement this "cancan" motto and get the votes of everybody except Canadian businessmen was a masterpiece of New Deal paternalism. To workers it promised wage-&-hour laws; to farmers. Govern-ment markets for farm products; to the unemployed, a huge public works program. Finally Mr. Stevens promised not only to pay for all this but to pay off Canada's entire national debt in 25 years by Govern-ment exploitation of gold mines and other natural resources...
...Potomac, Over all these SEC activities Chairman Kennedy keeps a sharp blue eye. In the Commission's Division of Labor, he personally reviews each & every appointment. But he drops into hearings, does the liaison work with other Govern-ment agencies, sees the President frequently, confers with his colleagues twice each day. No Federal official rides the airlines more than SEChairman Kennedy. In the last year he has flown more than 65,000 miles. Lately in one week he flew to San Francisco for the opening of a regional branch office, on to Los Angeles (with a stop-over...
...poorest in 40 years, will be so big this year that AAA has already made plans for a crop reduction program. Despite floods and a cold, wet spring in the Central States, the corn crop was running 50% better than last year. Whereas on April i the Govern-ment had estimated a winter wheat crop 435,499,000 bu., this figure by last week had been boosted to 458,000,000. For winter and spring wheat combined the Government predicted the biggest yield since 1931-731,045,000 bu., against 707,000,000 reported last fortnight by five private forecasters...
...plight is due largely to govern-ment intoxication...