Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Acts as well as words came from the White House as election aftermath. President Hoover summoned Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock back to Washington from San Francisco just as he was sailing for Hawaii (see p. 20). Estimates were prepared on which President Hoover would "recommend to Congress a special emergency appropriation to be applied to a further intensification of public works ... to provide further employment...
Chairman Shouse was given credit for this shrewd economic plea as an opening gun of the 1932 presidential campaign. Only thing that worried the Democrats in the aftermath of their victory was the way the stockmarket sagged lower and lower...
...advantage of those who can hold their securities for better times." The announced solution to this was that each stockholder may claim his proportion of the holdings, or else direct it sold or held as he sees fit. Philadelphia. Another failure which was direct aftermath of the September decline was that of C. Clothier Jones & Co., New York and Philadelphia brokerage house whose socialite partners include Richard Norris Williams II, onetime U. S. tennis champion. Each partner has been charged with fraud, four are out on bail. The firm was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended...
Suicides. Perhaps not an aftermath of the C. Clothier Jones failure was a startling Philadelphia sequence. Last week George K. Reilly of Reilly, Brock & Co. committed suicide. Soon afterward, Sidney F. Tyler Brock, the other partner, shot himself. The next day Robert L. Zoll, 53, junior partner of Charles H. Bean & Co., killed himself in the firm's basement. A few days later another suicide was Edwin I. Simpson, 59, president of E. I. Simpson...
...Dawson's Yarrow circle spread to the British court. King Edward VII had digestive troubles-aftermath of typhoid fever and of his continual gustatory excess. Dr. Dawson, as consultant physician, kept the royal paunch content. He became personal physician (1907) to George V, who then was the Prince of Wales. Upon George's coronation (1910) Dr. Dawson continued with greater prestige as his personal physician. The royal family frequently had great difficulty disciplining their heir, whom they familiarly still call David but whom subjects-apparent call Edward. At such times the King would call on Dr. Dawson...