Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
...Money. But the Federal Reserve is not a bottomless cash box from which countless millions of dollars can be paid out to member banks. Whence, therefore, will come all the money needed to make all the new loans? To this question there is a combination of interrelated answers. The broadest concept of the Glass-Steagall bill is that it will materially enlarge the Federal Reserve's power to stop member bank failures. As failures decline, hoarders of currency would be encouraged to redeposit their cash. Such redeposits. in turn, would strengthen banks and reduce their demands for more loans from...
...Negro would be soloist with the Chicago Symphony. Old Mrs. Blackstone investigated. The Negro, 27, was the son of a butler who had served her for 44 years. He had earned his Symphonic engagement through a contest conducted by the Society of American Musicians. Old Mrs. Blackstone took a box for George Garner's concert, invited her butler to sit with...
...Federal District Court, famed Judge Julian William Mack rapped for order. There was a polite pandemonium caused not by expectant gum-chewers but by 50 lawyers who were trying to find seats on the Defense side of the case. United States v. Sugar Institute, Inc. They filled the jury box (for there was no jury). They flowed over into the spectator rows, squatted on rickety benches. The only one who was sure of a seat was John C. Higgiris of Sullivan & Cromwell, for he was leader of the Defense. Lawyers know him for his defense of New York Life Insurance...
...Royal Box." On New Year's Eve Federal Prohibition agents swooped down upon it in a wellpublicized, spectacular raid. "What a pity!" he lamented. "We had . . . the nicest people . . . 16 cooks. . . . It was not like a club; it was like a home. . . . My heart broke." The day previous he had withdrawn his play, Papavert, from Broadway. Refurbished, renamed Mr. Papavert to preclude confusion with Freudian categories, it was later reopened. After eleven per formances the play, though very funny in France, closed with a loss of $35,000. On the day it closed, he intrepidly opened his second speakeasy...