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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some early, secret date, with 152 soldiers aboard and thousands more strung along the route, the first of some 50 armored special trains will begin moving 192,000,000 oz. of government gold worth $6,000,000,000 from New York, Philadelphia and other vaults to the great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. Ordinary railroad charge for such a haul would be some $200,000. Last week it was revealed that the Treasury would take advantage of government mail contracts, send its gold by registered parcel post. At the standard rate of 10? per oz., the postage bill...
...until after the turn of the year, Senator Wheeler summoned Morgan Partner George Whitney to explain a loan made to MOP by the big banking house at No. 23 Wall Street. At the time RFC was being organized, MOP needed $1,500,000 to tide it over an interest date, and the House of Morgan, already a large MOP creditor, furnished the money on condition that it would be repaid promptly from the road's RFC borrowings...
...every good U. S. citizen the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is a date that needs no explanation. Not so the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. Never has this date meant anything special to anyone, but this year it did. Under an amendment to the U. S. Code, adopted in 1934 after the adoption of the Lame Duck Amendment of the Constitution, the Electoral College met then instead of on the first Wednesday in January...
...Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Electoral College (president, Mathew H. McCloskey Jr., Philadelphia contractor) heard Governor George H. Earle declare that all this electoral nonsense was out of date, just like state's Rights. For Roosevelt & Garner, 36 gilt-edged cards in a green glass...
...mile. Vexed perhaps by that discrepancy, Ohio's Representatives did their best to make up for it last week. Meeting for the first time since a "five-minute recess" which began July 22, the House voted to declare that it had held semiweekly "skeleton sessions" since that date, proceeded to enter these sessions in its journal. Thereby each Representative was entitled to collect for 40 round trips between his home and Columbus which he had not taken, at a cost to Ohio taxpayers of $21,507. Dismayed were Representatives when a grudging farmer named Arnett Harbage got wind...