Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers, and in her grief at this accusation Mme Salengro died of heart disease. The Communists, having joined with the Socialists to make possible the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Blum, later turned from foes of Socialist Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever since last August, the weekly Gringoire and other Paris organs of the Right have been hammering at hard-boiled Minister Salengro while he hammered back so vigorously that in punishment for Gringoire's attacks and others the great Havas news agency was recently forced by the Premier to drop one of its leading...
...gold supporting at least $10 worth of credit. U. S. gold stocks are already at the incredible figure of $11,100,000,000, over one-half the world's monetary supply. To sterilize some of this potential credit the Federal Reserve Board upped bank reserve requirements last August, a move which reduced excess bank reserves from about $3,000,000,000 to $1,800,000,000. Since that date, however, nearly $450,000,000 worth of gold has been landed in the U. S., and excess reserves have mounted approximately the same amount. A continuation of gold imports...
...Elaine Barrie (née Jacobs), 21, his radio protégée and fourth bride; in Yuma, Ariz. Theirs was a hectic 20-month romance featured by a much-publicized cross-country chase with Actor Barrymore in the lead. Protégée Barrie last August announced she "would infinitely prefer to terminate our blessed relationship," but retained the 8½-carat diamond ring he had given her. Said he: "I'm so happy you wouldn't be able to print...
...sent the Digest a telegram which consisted of the word HA! repeated 50 times. The radical New Masses showed a cartoon cop barking into a microphone: "Pick up a nut at the Literary Digest office. He keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show...
...until June, then worked for the rest of the year, a total of some 31 weeks. The next year he was sick for two months and his work was even more irregular. In 1933 things started to pick up, and his job held through until June 1934. In August and September of that year he got in about six weeks' time, was laid off until the middle of November. Since then he has been a ''steady" worker, which means that he gets at least 46 weeks per year. In the first year of stabilization he was laid...