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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern invective, and the Secretary of the Interior, who possesses the most sulphurous vocabulary in the New Deal, long ago singled out each other for particular attention. Month ago Secretary Ickes curled his lip and sneered: ''Really, I don't pay much attention to anything his Chain-Gang Excellency says." Governor Talmadge drawled back: "Aw! He's just one of them boon- dogglers...
...richer residents of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel is Mrs. Mary Ann Magnin, the spry little 87-year-old founder of I. Magnin & Co., West Coast smartshop chain. Her daily routine includes a drive down the "Peninsula" in her Packard limousine, lunch at a Burlingame restaurant, a brief visit at the main store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous...
Magnin's is the swankest women's specialty-shop chain in the U. S. Besides the main store in San Francisco, it has shops in Seattle and in such California cities as Los Angeles, Pasadena, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, Oakland, Del Monte, Coronado. In a few stores there are collegegirl departments, similar to the debutante departments in big Manhattan specialty shops like Bonwit Teller's and Saks Fifth Avenue. In these Magnin's sells dresses as low as $22.75. But prices in general are near the top. Highest price ever paid for Magnin's ready...
...connection has the western Scripps League of Newspapers (formerly Scripps-Canfield) chain with the nationwide Scripps-Howard chain...
Having cut reserves by one or both of these means, Chairman Eccles could then apply the final brake-upping of the rediscount rate. At present this action would be ineffectual, for banks do not need to borrow from the Reserve. The weakest link in this brake chain is the fact that selling of the Reserve's Government bonds would be flatly contrary to Treasury policy so long as there are huge budget deficits to be financed...