Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a marvellously succinct account of the ducal government in Normandy, its approach to genuine monarchy, and the extension of the system to England...
With the near approach of the Stillhaltung conference in a few weeks to determine the future of the moratorium on repayment of Germany's short term obligations, the economic prostration of Germany is revealed more and more clearly by a nation disarmingly frank in dealing with its multitudinous creditors, particularly of the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Governor of the Reichsbank, is never at a loss to deal with the financial situation, and has seen to it that Germany shall secure her place among debtor nations as a country on the very verge of financial catastrophe, one which must...
...only of 1933 but also of 1932. Output of bituminous coal, prime source of U. S. power, exceeded the levels of the winter of 1929-30 for the first time. Lumber production was at the highest volume since last August. Steel operations, now 47% of capacity, were expected to approach 55% in April. The burlap trade predicted the first active spring since 1928. It was estimated that the pick-up in automobile production had bettered the status of 10,000,000 workers in 20 major industries...
...Eric P. Swenson, onetime chairman of National City Bank, by the time young, energetic Langbourne Williams graduated from the Harvard Business School. But by 1930, after his Lee, Higginson apprenticeship, Mr. Williams was ready to oust the old management which had, among other things, let Freeport's reserves approach the point of exhaustion. He became vice president and a Baltimore banker named Eugene Norton took the presidency "in trust." Last year Langbourne Williams felt he was old enough to assume official control and Banker Norton moved up to the chairmanship. Last week it was Mr. Norton who made...
...Senator Borah's amendment that the pay restoration should be limited to employes drawing less than $6,000 a year-an amendment which would have kept members of Congress from recovering their own pay cut. So the bill was batted back & forth between the House and Senate, Only approach to deference for the President's desires was a vote of 190 to 189 with which the House finally rejected the Senate's plan to spend $354,000.000 in favor of its own plan to spend only $243,000,000 more than the President wanted. Cause of this...