Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queried at the home office in San Francisco, the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line declared that Capt. Hansen had radioed that the whole affair was a hoax. Snorted the Line: "The incident has been grossly exaggerated...
...Federal Reserve Board, which controls margins and credit, and Chairman James McCauley Landis of the Securities & Exchange Commission, which has the police powers. On leaving the White House, Chairman Landis said nothing. Chairman Eccles reiterated the well-known fact that the long rise has been largely a cash affair-a pronouncement which in another Administration might have been taken as a bullish tip straight from the White House. But the official attitude toward the stock-market was characterized in Washington last week as sternly "vigilant...
...positive danger to established industries. The position taken by the President in this instance cannot be regarded favorably, for there can be little doubt as to the motivating force behind the sudden revival of a program long fancied by Mr. Roosevelt. Indeed, the whole conduct of the affair smacks too much of a spoiled child deprived of a cherished plaything. Unquestionably the people have given the President a large, if ill-defined mandate, but this project was certainly anything but an integral part of it. Not once but several times it was shown to be contrary to the will...
...Horse Show really come into its own. Since the War, while the utility of the show horse has declined to the vanishing point, the glittering popularity of the Horse Show has enormously increased. New events, active and frivolous, replacing stodgy regiments of carriage horses, have made the whole affair intelligible and even entertaining to people who once considered it no more than a malodorous nuisance. Last week the National Horse Show entered the second half of its first century as a New York institution. Though it could not be said to have opened the social season, already in full swing...
...fact that the others stuck pretty closely behind them, they still failed to lick Yale which will be entered in the I.C. 4 A competition. In other words the outlook is dark, so dark in fact that no one is doing a great deal of worrying about the affair one way or another...