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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply to J. G. Webb (TIME, Aug...
...Aug. 26 was the date set by President Hoover for a Washington meeting of the "Committees of Twelve" in each of the twelve Federal Reserve districts to speed up business recovery. ¶ President Hoover and a stag party of eight went fishing for hardheads and sea trout for several days down Chesapeake Bay aboard the U. S. S. Sequoia...
...18th Century French republicans celebrated July 14, the day the destruction of the Bastille commenced, so last week in all the little hotels of Montmartre the loose ladies of Paris celebrated the destruction of another prison almost as old: St. Lazare, handed over to the wreckers Aug. 9. For 141 years the vermin-ridden prison on the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, built on the site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist...
...Giant of the West" seemed to agree that he was indeed feeling better last week. He continued to frolic with increasing enthusiasm on his New York Stock Exchange (TIME, Aug. 8). After taking a one-day breathing spell, the market boiled for the rest of the week, stocks & bonds soared. From their Depression lows rail shares (Dow-Jones averages) were up a thumping 116%, industrials 73%, utilities 73%-Bonds rose 17%. Brokerage houses with staffs geared to drowsy 700,000-share days joyously recalled old employes to help handle the fat business of 5,500,000 shares daily. Wall Street...
Observers wondered if Publishers McCormick & Patterson were not eliminating their Detroit expense in order to marshal all available cash resource to the Chicago Tribune's battle against the Daily News (TIME, Aug...