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...Excellent," answered handsome Adolf, "I am not willing, nor are my associates. We wish on the contrary to request the President to entrust us with leadership of the government of the Reich and with the entire state apparatus in full measure...
...decided that Pennsylvania had not done enough for itself to earn a Federal loan. It had no State-wide relief agency. Its Legislature, now sitting in special session, was haggling over another $12,000.000 relief bill. It had not materially curtailed expenses. In denying Pennsylvania's request Atlee Pomerene, new R. F. C. chairman, announced what amounted to a major policy in distributing the Government's $300,000,000 in relief funds...
Governor Pinchot led the sad march back to Harrisburg where there was hostile muttering to the effect that R. F. C. was "hoarding" its relief funds, that Pennsylvania's request had been denied because it would go Republican in November, loan or no loan...
...house at Mount Stewart. County Down, Northern Ireland. In Ireland observers leaped to the conclusion that he was there to hold a series of secret meetings with de Valera representatives on the annuities problem. Some added an additional detail: Scot MacDonald's trip to Ireland was at the request of delegates to the Ottawa conference (see p. 12) who are restless for an early solution. All these stories Scot MacDonald went to great lengths to deny...
...there was something the three District of Columbia Commissioners governing the city could do and they did it. President Hoover was lunching when the Commissioners called to ask him for Federal troops. 'Tell them to put their request in writing," said the President. They wrote...