Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to Follow. In other Southern States last week cotton was also a major concern with Governors, politicians and planters. First to follow Texas was South Carolina (estimated crop: 929,000 bales) whose Governor Ibra C. Blackwood called a special legislative session for this week. It was the first extraordinary sitting of this assembly since 1914 when, in a similar crisis of 6¢ cotton, Governor Coleman Livingston Blease called the law-makers together...
This state of fiscal affairs caused President Hoover concern. He pondered it carefully with his Cabinet. Obviously the Government could not be allowed to run deeper & deeper into debt during the Depression. After newsmen had had a press conference with the President, there began to appear identical newsstories with an authoritative White House background to the effect that the President had not "closed his mind" to tax upping at the coming session of Congress, that Europe's condition "dominated" U. S. economic recovery, that he hoped for a revival of foreign trade soon. Much was made of the fact...
...Anti-Smith Democrats of Virginia. "Unaccounted for" was $17,895 in a Washington political account. The Bishop as executor opened a special account for the estate of a woman long dead and then used it as a political depository. Another of his accounts was for a business concern whose charter had been revoked seven years before. From a political account a $528 personal note was paid...
...thought to have an auspicious future, especially since the gas will be sold on heat units instead of cubic feet (natural gas has nearly twice as many B. T.U. as manufactured gas). Apparently most sure of its success is Continental Construction Corp., the builder, for last week this concern announced that by the end of 1932 it will build a parallel line with 30-inch pipe, shoot natural gas from the South past Chicago, into New England...
...important buys during 1929 was Berkey & Gay, a Grand Rapids company making high class general furniture. The concern was one of the oldest in Grand Rapids and its $9,000,000-a-year sales volume made it one of the biggest. It was not operating at a profit because the furniture business then, as now, was confused and upset. Zalmon Gilbert Simmons, president of Simmons Co., planned not only to make his company potent in furniture but to bring stability and prosperity to the entire industry. In great advertisements in the Grand Rapids press he stated: "It is my desire...