Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olum, vice-president of the Union, then offered the following compromise resolution, which was later passed in addition to Periman's: "Since the actions of the Roosevelt administration and the American newspapers with the regard to the Russian-Finnish situation may serve to involve the United States in the war on the side of England and France by breaking down the intense desire of the American people for peace...
...strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called. Why Peace? The bad news from Detroit had been like powder smoke to U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman got telephone calls from Mr. Murphy. To Detroit went wise, placid Phil Murray, and into private conference with Chrysler...
...Seven years of Franklin Roosevelt have taught Republicans, high & low, to turn the beady eye of suspicion on "That Man's" every proposal. Hence they looked sharply at a suggestion emanating from "a source close to the President": That the public interest might best be served by a postponement of the 1940 conventions to a later date than usual...
...Princeton University freshmen chose Adolf Hitler as "greatest living person" (no close second); Franklin Roosevelt "greatest living American...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed the Planning Committee for Mineral Policy, which urgently recommended accumulation of a stockpile. But the President, who won his bet with Senator Borah that World War II would begin in autumn 1939, never pressed for action. When war came, the price of tin shot up from 49? to 75? a lb., then slumped back as the first wave of inventory buying passed. Last week, independently of Government initiative, U. S. tin smelting was cautiously getting off to a new start. Two famed U. S. copper interests-Phelps Dodge (No. 3 U. S. copper unit) and American...