Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countercharges made by Messrs. Morgan. Morgan & Lilienthal are being delved into by a joint committee headed by Ohio's industrious, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, with $50,000 to spend (TIME, June 6). Because Vic Donahey knows he is not a born inquisitor like such famed Senators as Black, Wheeler, Nye, La Follette and the late Tom Walsh, his committee last week retained a paid inquisitor just as the Senate's Wall Street investigation in 1933-34 hired Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora. The TVA committee's choice: Francis Biddle, 52, a Philadelphia lawyer who followed Franklin Roosevelt through...
...Davies made a final trip, which ended fortnight ago, through the Ukraine and the Black Sea area. To the inhabitants of Caucasian and Crimean ports the sight of the Davies 316-foot yacht Sea Cloud was a never-ending diversion. They thronged the piers to watch the Ambassador step from the yacht's speedy trim launch manned by snappily costumed, briskly saluting seamen...
...carryover. Annual U. S. consumption is about half this stupendous total. With light crops in England, Italy and North Africa, there is a slim chance the U. S. may export a sizable share of its surplus. Hope on this score plus rumors of black rust last week jumped prices on the Chicago wheat exchange 4½? a bu. day after the report was issued. But at 80?, wheat was still 30? under last spring and it looked as though only a major crop loss from rust and bad weather or vast New Deal lending could prevent the price from going...
...Charles M. Schwab. Mr. Schwab was president of the society in 1927 when its council decided to enlarge its index of engineering articles. Between 1927 and 1934, A. S. M. E. lost $215,000 on the index. Last week, in New York Supreme Court, Justice William H. Black said he would appoint a referee to decide whether certain members of the council were liable for this loss, ordered a referendum of the society to see if it thought the index was a good idea, seized the opportunity to abuse Mr. Schwab and these associates: "Inconceivable ignorance . . . flagrant instance of inattention...
...whining customers' man, who, coached by his coldblooded, canny wife, worms his way into the bank, plays the Black Widow that finally gobbles up the overconfident Bertillon...