Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 revolt was primarily the Congressional desire to placate the American Legion and Government employes before election next autumn-a desire which will probably grow stronger as the session draws to a close. To the President the pension and pay restoration was a bigger defeat than either the bonus bill or the St. Lawrence Treaty. It indicated that he might soon have to have Leaders Robinson and Byrns...
...Hollis--"Autumn Croucs." The love saga of an English school teacher makes a pleasant if not an exhilarating play that manages to be sentimental without dripping noticeably...
Taxes. Second important measure that the Administration is. bent on having is the bill to plug income tax law leaks. A good talking point for next autumn's campaign, it will add $258,000,000 to the government's revenue. Already through the House, the tax bill now reposes in the Senate Finance Committee...
...home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George's wife prepares to run away. In the summer young Ollie Shaw flirts with Doris and Brother George Shaw's children get the croup. In the autumn Ollie is sent away to town. In the winter Doris flirts with Stan while his barn burns. The spring is a peaceful season. Doris is about to go away with Stan, George Shaw's wife starts to have another baby and Mark Shaw (David Landau) declines an invitation...
...unlisted securities would be dumped from brokerage accounts, and another $350,000,000 of listed stock would have to be liquidated to satisfy the 60% margin. Such wholesale liquidation, he warned, might reverse the upward curve of business. Like Ferdinand Pecora, Mr. Dickinson knows his subject. Last autumn President Roosevelt put him in charge of a committee to study possible Exchange regulations. The committee's report, turned in last January, recommended regulation of a moderate character through a special Federal body. Sagely Mr. Dickinson's committee said: "It must always be recognized that the average...