Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myself."? The personality of Alfred Emanuel Smith continued to dominate the Chicago scene. On his arrival from Manhattan, his first interview was as crisp and crackly as any he had ever given during the 1928 campaign. Excerpts...
Greedy hands last week itched to grab 3,500 handsome red certificates. Each certificate represented 100 shares of Diamond Match Co. and the crisp paper pile was worth $4,500,000 on the New York Stock Exchange...
Appeal of Eleven. So disturbed by the Congressional tax situation were six famed Republicans and five famed Democrats that they signed a public appeal for speedy action and mailed it to Senate Majority Leader Watson, Senate Minority Leader Robinson, Acting Chairman Crisp of the House Ways & Means Committee* and House Minority Leader Snell. Excerpt: "On behalf of vast numbers of our fellow citizens, we appeal through you to the Senate and the House to lay aside every form of partisanship and quickly to unite to adopt a balanced Federal budget as well as to enact a plan of taxation . economically...
...suggestive letters, BIZ. The big table around which biggest business is done by the Governors of Banks of England, France, Germany Italy, Japan and a U. S. group headed by J.P. Morgan & Co. is draped in grey, the color of money bags. On this grey table lay fresh and crisp last week the second annual report of BIZ or Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich, famed in English as BIS (Bank for International Settlements), in French as Bri (Banque des Reglements International-). When he stood up to report, Manhattan Banker Gates W. McGarrah, President of BIZ was seen to have...
...rising to their feet. Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903-11) spoke four times on the floor, six times in committee and four times (irregularly) from the chair. Thomas Brackett Reed (1889-91; 1895-99) spoke, according to the records, only "two or three times" from the floor whereas Charles Frederick Crisp (1891-95) spoke not at all. On March 15, 1871 Speaker James Gillespie Elaine indulged in an undignified and personal controversy with Representative Butler, also of Maine, on the House floor. Henry Clay (1811-14; 1815-20) spoke so often from the floor that he virtually used his prestige...