Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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3) Announcement by its chairman, Jesse Jones, that the RFC was ready to loan funds to utilities, underwriters and businessmen on their inventories (see p. 53). Meanwhile, what U. S. Business was inclined to consider the most helpful move of the week was not the Administration's effort to...
¶ Discussed legislation to divorce marketing from other phases of the petroleum industry. This is supposed to be a New Deal objective as one result of the conviction, in Madison, Wis. four months ago, of 16 major oil companies and 30 of their officers of fixing the market price on...
Regarding the influence this might have on the often-rumored third term of President Roosevelt, Holcombe declared: "I have never supposed that Mr. Roosevelt would consider running for a third consecutive term. But no President would want to weaken himself in his second term by making statements about the future...
Readers who may have wondered what happened to these children after they grew up can find some enlightenment in Julian Hawthorne's posthumous Memoirs. An old man's book, it suggests the rambling, good-natured discourse of some cultivated gentleman who has known all the literary great of...
Aside from his calamitous reduction of Paraguay's man power. Dictator Lopez' great claim to distinction was his love for Eliza Alicia Lynch. Eliza was a needle-witted Irish girl of uncertain background who became his mistress in Paris, bore him four sons, and was charged by his...