Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glaring facts which forced a change of viewpoint were: 1) the stockmarket slump that had reduced paper values $25,000,000,000 in ten weeks; 2) growing fears of a major business recession. The results were: 1) an immediate move to give relief to Wall Street stock traders; 2) clear evidence that New Deal was giving thought to helping Business and Business was beginning to regret the bitter things it had said about New Deal spending. During the week, the Federal Reserve Board loosened margin requirements,, effective Nov. 1, thus carrying stocks through their steadiest week in two months...
...Government planned to go to Barcelona as early as last November but decided temporarily on Valencia. . . . Barcelona now in its turn has the significance of showing the clear fidelity of the Government toward Catalonia...
Only 40 of the 413 churches which once served Moscow are functioning today, although the city's population has risen from 2,000,000 to 2,800,000 since the capital of Russia moved thither from Petrograd. According to Trud these 40 churches worked clear around the clock last Easter, holding services in three shifts attended by so many citizens of Moscow that not only the churches themselves but their courtyards were packjammed with Easter worshippers...
...should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow churches which have not been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda and in Izvestia (News), official organ of the Soviet Government, that the Russian priest of today is generally as much a "worker" as anyone else in the Soviet Union. Typically he is a factory hand, clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted...
...this according to custom. Also according to custom, the Cadets plan to start eating lunch in the Union at 11:15 o'clock, march to Soldiers Field via Dudley Gate and the Weeks Bridge at 12:40 o'clock, enter the Stadium at 1:15, and clear the field 15 minutes later. After the game they are dismissed...