Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt appointed a fifth member of the Securities & Exchange Commission to fill a vacancy created when Joseph Patrick Kennedy resigned last autumn. The post was offered to Benjamin Victor Cohen but that New Deal legalite turned it down. Sent to the Senate for confirmation was the name of William Orville ("Bill") Douglas, 37, as brilliant a professor as the New Deal has attracted to Washington. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, who tried to buy him away from the Yale Law School with a salary of some $20,000, declared that Bill Douglas...
...mistaken policies and a puppet of circumstance; the toils of propaganda, insidious stirrings of befuddled popular sympathy, the operation of businessmen and financiers, had dragged the U. S. into a foreign mess that took the lives of 126,000 citizen-soldiers. There were well-known facts: In the autumn of 1914 J. P. Morgan & Co. became agents for the purchase of war supplies by Great Britain; before the U. S. entered the War the House of Morgan bought three billion dollars' worth of goods for Allies on a commission of 1%; these purchases had made prosperity...
Amiably discussing the song with a reporter, Trombonist Riley told how he had played it on a battered German flügel horn for several months this autumn, how it had become a sensation among metropolitan stay-up-lates, how Rudy Vallee had put it on the air, thus starting its phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow...
...also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke his own precedent to the extent of going to England to work for Producer Alexander Korda. U. S. Author Sherwood wrote the script of The Ghost Goes West, but in other respects it was a characteristic Clair production. Producer Korda, whose advice he might well have welcomed, scrupulously refrained from...
Tobacco processing taxes were reduced on some grades last autumn, but no cut in cigaret prices followed. While there was talk of a cigaret cut last week, greatest benefit will flow to the tobacco companies, which were never able to pass on the tax in full...