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...Republican presidential nominee coupled his third term theory with a bitter attack upon the Administration's "pump-priming" and charged that this program was nullified by the President's constant "throwing of monkey wrenches" into the machinery of business and government...
...Although Mr. Gunther has all the conveniences of modern travel at his command, there may be many who will think that the shortness of his sojourn scarcely justifies so ambitious a title." But Mr. Gunther also has countless reliable friends-politicians, newspapermen, informants-who are more than willing to pump him full of biographical detail, information, gossip, anecdotes, wherever he goes. A crack journalist, he is indefatigable in collecting facts, tireless in hunting out the small details. His workmanlike book is exactly what it was meant to be-a handy, popular, political guidebook of a strife-torn continent...
Government Magic. The 1938 market upturn was signalized by Franklin Roosevelt's decision to prime the pump once again by putting $4,000,000,000 of emergency money into circulation. Last week the President had made no such decision but speculators hoped for other forms of Government magic. They had reason to expect that business would get a modest boost from repeal of some of the more painful provisions...
...priming the pump: "Consumer buying power is the milk in the coconut of all business...
...week, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows moved out of indoor arenas in Manhattan and Boston and pitched canvas in Long Island City, patrons of the Big Show sat in the first air-conditioned tent in circus history. Eight big trailers, each one a complete unit, pump ice-chilled air into the tent on hot days, warmed air on cold days...