Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees ta a White House monetary soiree. He told them exactly what steps he wished to take next and why. The following noon he sent a message to Congress making the outline of his plans clear to every John Citizen in the U. S. (see p. 12). ¶The President's two other messages of the week to Congress asked: 1) authorization of $2,000,000,000 worth of Farm Credit Administration bonds, principal as well as interest Government-guaranteed, for FCA to exchange for farm mortgages; 2) ratification...
...Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures. The most arresting example of Senatorial bravura occurred not inside but outside the Senate. Louisiana's blatant Long thought he had taken a wide swing to the Left when he introduced a resolution for Senate legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than $1,000,000 of his income, or to receive bequests totaling more than $5,000,000, or to possess an estate of more than $50,000,000. This proposal sounded almost Capitalistic compared to what young Senator Gerald P. Nye, as bleak a personality...
...Many a celebrating citizen gulped an aspirin tablet on New Year's Day without any idea of whom to thank for the relief. Few days later in Rensselaer, N. Y., the man who introduced aspirin to the U. S. on a commercial scale retired from the active management of Bayer Co. Dr. Emmanuel von Sails, a Swiss from Basle, came to the U. S. during the Spanish War, went to work for a chemical concern in Rensselaer. In 1904 he persuaded the company to start making and marketing acetyl salicylic acid tablets, which were well known in Europe...
Technically it belongs today to every American citizen who deposited his gold with his bank, but hardly anybody asked for a receipt and it would be difficult to find out just who deposited gold and gold certificates. Also it would be regarded as unfair to pay a profit to those who by accident happened to possess gold certificates in March, while the rest of the country used other legal tender currency...
...Hillel Bernstein hoists France with its own petard. In quiet but telling accents that should bring tears of joy to many a Yankee eye he tells a burlesque tale that is at the same time an uproariously effective caricature of French politics, French traits. Henry Jones, solemn U. S. citizen temporarily resident in Paris while writing a cookbook designed to glorify French cuisine, is accused by a Frenchwoman of having walked off from a restaurant with her husband's coat. In the course of their parley a crowd collects. The spirit of Verdun and the iniquity...