Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress last week when he sent to the Capitol for speedy enactment his bill for refinancing agricultural mortgages. His land-leasing -domestic - allotment-cotton pool measure now in the Senate's hands is designed to raise commodity prices and thus put cash into the farm industry from the bottom by direct subsidies (see p. 18). His mortgage bill is meant to ease the debt load pressing down on the farm from the top. The two pieces of legislation complemented each other in purpose, would probably be fused into one by Congress...
Last week the White House passed a sentence of death on this familiar immunity tag regularly appended in tiny type at the bottom of stock promotion circulars. True to his Party platform. President Roosevelt sent one more special message to Congress in which he said: "I recommend . . . legislation for Federal supervision of traffic in investment securities in interstate commerce. . . . The public in the past has sustained severe losses through practices neither ethical nor honest on the part of many persons and corporations selling securities. Of course, the Federal Government cannot and should not take any action which might be construed...
...BANANA BOTTOM-Claude McKay -Harper ($2.50). Novel of Jamaica Negroes by one of them who later lived in Harlem...
...Blatz, the Blatzes have long since left it (for a time it belonged to a British syndicate). It is controlled by Edward Landsberg who in two or three decades has made his way up from the bottom of the beer business, a very capable, round, red-faced, white-haired man with a cigar in his face, president of both Blatz in Milwaukee and United States Brewing in Chicago...
...Dale, collector and authority on French painting, helped organize four months ago an exhibition of the paintings of the late Alphonse Bouguereau, barroom decorator par excellence of the Gay Nineties. For all their technical slickness, the correct perspective for looking at a Bouguereau nude was always obtained through the bottom of a 16 oz. beer glass. Critics in the chill light of a formal art gallery were not impressed with the "Back to Bouguereau" movement. Last week with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition at the Widenstein Galleries for New York's Child Welfare...