Word: contents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between swims at the pool the President-elect shut himself up with visitors for long hours in his study. Starved for facts, newsmen had to content themselves with writing long-winded speculative pieces, often based on nothing more authoritative than a casual aside by Marvin Mclntyre. Mr. Roosevelt's press contact man. The three most important callers upon the President-elect during the week...
...held that perhaps the Government would have to pay its obligations, already contracted, in the dollar of existing gold content but even that was regarded as doubtful. . . . If any such views are to obtain, may God have mercy upon the Secretary of the Treasury when he shall be compelled in a few months to refund $11,000,000,000 of government obligations...
...loves the half-breed after all. In the course of her adventures she runs the gamut of engagement, marriage, separation, motherhood, prostitution for her baby's sake, divorce, and gigolo-hiring, before she at last finds true love in the arms of good old Moonglow, the Indian. Not content with this, the scenario writers estranged her father, burned up her baby, and put her mother on a most touching death-bed, all to give little Nasa the chance to ask overwhelming questions about Life and the Why Of It All. There are, of course, no answers...
...five cases where no bleeding was noted, a marked increase in the globulin content of the spinal fluid was observed...
...content with this the Stevens Hotel on the last day of the year traded a third mortgage for its note held by Illinois Life, thereby slashing its current liabilities by $600,000. Illinois Life allowed the hotel 78? on the dollar for its third mortgage but on the same day put the mortgage on its books at par. Although Stevens Hotel first mortgage bonds were then selling at 25? on the dollar, Illinois Life credited itself with a $200,000 profit. That did not end the amazing jugglery, for a few days later the Stevens Hotel gave notes to Illinois...