Word: await
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another important assistant was Francis Globy Await, acting Comptroller of the Currency, also a Republican holdover, who looks a little like Ogden Livingston Mills and smokes a 6-in. cigar at about the same angle. Mr. Await, so rushed that his uncut black hair hung over the tops of his ears, kept saying: "We're snowed under, we're snowed under." On him since last September has fallen the brunt of liquidating more than 1,000 closed national banks...
...only a solution for their own troubles but also a modus vivendi for closed banks in other states. Deposits would be divided in approximately the same proportions as assets. The liquid branch would be operated normally, subject to certain restrictions at the start; the frozen branch would await a thaw. With both State and Federal legislation required it seemed certain that the holiday would be extended...
...sake of the future is not the right means to promote idealization of national life. I realize my past conduct was a result of emotions which were not based on realities. My error was gross. What I took to be benevolence was merely emotional indignation. I now await Heaven's sentence...
...introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...
...cuter the White House, they will have an opportunity to be as secretive as the out going administration. Mr. Roosevelt can appoint a commission to continue the investigation of the dishonesty in New York City politics. But eddy though the people do not expect him to act thus. They await his promised "new deal." May he start it by showing that he has enough confidence n his projects to make them public...