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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. Navy last week performed at sea an act designed to impress a world audience (see col. 1), at home, in Iowa, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins took the spotlight in the Administration's biggest act for domestic consumption since the 1938 elections...
...they have usually done when glory was being dished out, his Italian "volunteers" again got away with the biggest helping. At the head of the parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...
Renaissance. Safe from fire or quake in one of the fairground's two permanent hangar buildings was the biggest, choicest exhibition of art ever shown in California. To select its gallery of contemporary paintings and sculpture, meditative Roland McKinney, onetime director of the Baltimore Museum, had traveled 30,000 miles and peered carefully at the handiwork of 350 U. S. artists. To assemble a central gallery of decorative arts, smart San Franciscan Dorothy Liebes whizzed through Europe last summer visiting ateliers from dawn to dusk, enlisted such distinguished U. S. and European designers as Richard Neutra...
These are for Washington's Grand Coulee, biggest engineering enterprise in history, and will get into action in 1941. They will weigh 960 tons each, measure 48.5 ft. across as against the Boulder Dam generators...
...branches, demanded their money. In three days the bank dished out $2,179,280. N. J. Title Guarantee & Trust still had over a million in cash on hand, but it did not open for business again. With $21,500,000 in deposits still on its books, it was the biggest bank failure in five years. Reason: under Boss Frank Hague, Jersey City's tax rate on real estate is the highest in the U. S. and the bank's assets were frozen with $21,000,000 in real estate commitments, much of it in empty tenements and factories...