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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is undeniably good. He left up in the air the specific failure of his Cabinet to clear up the Stavisky scandal which is still in the dawdling hands of its Parliamentary Committee. Convinced that le peuple blame chiefly the Committee and not himself, Gastounet left the microphone to begin his summer vacation. Next evening as he was about to catch the sleeping car for his wife's estate near Toulouse the Stavisky scandal blew up in Committee and excited Cabinet Ministers came tearing to the station...
...very centre of the paralyzed region, in his office at San Francisco's City Hall, sat Mayor Angelo Rossi. The clock on his desk ticked up to 8:01 a. m. That was the zero hour for organized labor to begin the nation's biggest general strike since 1919. For months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf...
Those who looked for a New Deal Governor to begin with a flourish were disappointed. He did not even deliver an inaugural address. During his first nine days in office, he allowed many people to come and whisper in his ear, including Democratic National Committeeman John H. Wilson (? Scotch-Irish, ¼ Tahitian, ? Hawaiian), but no political appointment was made, not one single official statement issued...
From coast to coast and border to border, every region will be covered by the commissioners. A flight over the Caribbean airways will probably be included. The committee will reassemble in Washington Sept. 1 to begin public hearings...
...investors take confidence and start once more to invest in industry, the great surplus of investable cash will subside and Government bond prices will sink. But this possibility would please the Treasury even more, for relief expenses would fall, the Government would spend less, and tax receipts would begin to increase. Chief worry of economists last week was that this change might be postponed until such a huge investable surplus had been piled up that when it finally pours into industry, it will produce a bigger and more dangerous boom than that...