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...interference is becoming too insistent to be ignored or further flouted, and though the "United States may have its feet on the ground" all too many of the latter are still insufficiently shod for a hard winter. While it may be stretching things too much to say that the shake-up in NRA means that the President is subscribing to "recovery before reform," it does at least indicate that he may put recovery before relief. All in all, there is a strong presumption in favor of the belief that the National Industrial Recovery Board is but a means of tapering...
...match on the second, finished his morning round with a 69 that left him 5 up. In the afternoon, he picked up three more holes on the first nine. The holes ran out at the 29th green. Little sank a two-foot putt and Goldman stepped for ward to shake hands...
...second year of the War found France worrying more than usual about her declining birth rate. ... A blackmailing publisher of a small Paris paper hit upon a plan to shake down the firm of Pernod Fils, large absinthe manufacturers, by threatening to campaign for the prohibition of absinthe. His plan of attack took advantage of the following popular beliefs...
Striding down the Fair's main street, he passed the empty buildings of Germany and Jugoslavia. Both countries at the last minute decided to send no exhibits. A little farther on he stopped at the French building, to grin and shake hands with the exhibit's director. Edouard Soulier, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee...
...spotlight, wired him asking for an interview as soon as possible. There is plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace