Procedure Quotes
This was one of the critical quotes from the handling of the Great Depression. The President had a series of radio talks to the people in which he addressed them directly and explained things as he then understood them. In this particular quotation he was trying to manage the public’s expectation and told them quite candidly that he and his administration would make some mistakes—some Presidents like Hoover, his predecessor, rarely ever admitted error.
She saw strikes as wasteful where the workers and the companies, the public and the government lost. She favored arbitration which was generally opposed by labor and management and still is today in most cases.
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, a Spanish General, headed an army uprising and with help from the king, dismantled Parliament. Following this Rivera ruled Spain in a flamboyant manner thinking that he was the “iron surgeon” Costa had prayed for.