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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post of High Commissioner of the Philippine Commonwealth when that job comes into existence about Nov. 15. In Manila, Filipinos announced that when they take Malacanan Palace away from Governor Murphy for the use of their new President they will give the U. S. a site on which to build its High Commissioner a home...
...week to be hoping that all of NYA's functions except work relief would be permanent. Fifty million dollars?roughly, enough to endow two Duke Universities; or to pay the ordinary expenses of the U. S. Government in 1850 with enough left over to acquire Alaska & Hawaii; or to build another Normandie; or to finance the World War for five hours?were set aside for NYA's first year. Said President Roosevelt: "The yield on this investment should be high...
...monster for five years for a $3,000,000 subsidy. Last winter, I. M. M. struck another bargain with the Government whereby it could lay up the Leviathan but keep the $1,720,000 which it owed the Government in liquidated damages for retiring the ship by agreeing to build a new ship of the Washington class. To Mr. Mitchell it all spelled "favoritism and appearance of corruption," the broad inference being that the favorite was Vincent Astor, who happens to be a director and one of I. M. M.'s big stockholders as well as President Roosevelt...
What they had done was to peril the sanctity of multilateral treaties by signing with Germany an exchange of notes professing to acknowledge Realmleader Hitler's "right" to violate the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles in return for his promise "forever" binding Germany not to build a navy more than 35% as potent as Great Britain's (TIME, June...
...biggest maker of paper bags leased a tract along the Savannah River on the old Hermitage Plantation,* the city's businessmen & bankers were on pins & needles lest the company choose another site for its first Southern paper mill. Fernandino, Fla. tried desperately to wangle PWA funds to build a pine-pulp mill, which Union Bag was to operate. Then Jacksonville was discussed. But at last Savannah's newspapers got their chance to welcome a new industry with banner headlines...