Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things the stubby little Texan is generally given credit for having achieved within the Cabinet. He, as much as any one man, quashed the idea of armed U. S. intervention in Cuba when the Cabinet had it under consideration because of the series of Cuban revolutions in the autumn of 1933. Supposed dialog...
...Last autumn the Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank was stayed from foreclosing a $9,000 mortgage on William W. Radford's 170-acre Kentucky farm by a brand-new device for scaling down farm debts and forestalling foreclosures-the Frazier-Lemke Act, a non-Administration measure filibustered to passage by Senator Huey P. Long in the last days of the 73rd Congress. That law permitted a farmer to declare himself bankrupt and keep his farm by having its current value appraised, then paying this sum to his creditors within five years. Farmer Radford got his debt scaled down...
...Last autumn Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau charged Publisher Bowles with hoarding $94,860 in gold. The publisher contended that the gold was in escrow, with the Government's knowledge, to pay for newsprint imported from Finland. Last month the Treasury settled the case, had the charge dismissed...
Such educators had their eyes, last week on Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., where old Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland seemed about to give the Chicago plan a new twist. Next autumn, he announced, the last two years of the college will be cut adrift from the first two, moored to a graduate school under a single dean. The first two years could scarcely become anything but a junior college...
...Street. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. had helped Mr. Fink build his strategic plant in a bottomless swamp on the Detroit River, thereby confounding more orthodox steelmen who for more than engineering reasons freely predicted that his mills would sink out of sight. When Mr. Fink called with his friends last autumn, the Kuhn, Loeb doors were open. Inside, the triumvirate was greeted by Partner Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws), who is something of an authority on the steel industry and the specialist- insofar as Kuhn, Loeb has specialists-in industrial financing...