Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Congress (by the Thomas amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act) put it up to the President to inflate in five different ways, Senator Thomas did not relax but stayed close to Washington, all last summer and autumn, to prod the President on. In September he wired all the members of Congress, lining them up "20-to-1" for the program of inflation. In October he was ballyhooing a march of 1,000,000 men on Washington unless the Administration took inflationary steps...
...with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn when Mayor LaGuardia won the first reform vic tory in New York City in 20 years, mild-mannered Governor Lehman was dutifully on deck last week for the opening of his Legislature. A question affecting the governing laws of New York City (pop. 7,000,000) is always the most...
...often during the summer and autumn did Attorney General Cummings vehemently declare that he, too, ''meant business" on ending gold hoarding that his threats became a standing joke at the Department of Justice...
...Government departments have registered a protest with President Conant against the present 6 o'clock closing hour at the College Library, it was learned yesterday from reliable sources. The History Department was the first to register its petition for the restoration of the after-dinner hours abolished in the autumn of 1932, the Government Department shortly following suit with its own resolution...
...associates were charged with looting Northern Indiana's treasury to shore up the crumbling walls of the Insull holding companies. This particular Insull echo resulted from the trial of Howard Duncan, onetime assistant treasurer, who was indicted for embezzlement of $1,500. On the witness stand last autumn he calmly admitted stealing not $1,500 but $132,000, most of which he had squandered on the horses. But, Embezzler Duncan testified, his superiors had embezzled much more, and he was ready to show how they...