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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pressure was brought to bear on the committee throughout the day by many members of the Freshman Class as well as the Jubilee Committee, which expressed a desire for the Saturday date...
...committee shied. Such a move might be all right, they said, if applied by the whole Senate to each & every supply bill regardless, but to single out Agriculture for such treatment struck them as unfair and politically unwise,† Not only that, but the committeemen jeopardized all economizing to date by voting into the bill $378,000,000 more for farmers...
...worked with our tongues in our cheeks often-clipping the home papers and altering date lines, coining the expression that "it never rains on the Riviera and there's always snow in Switzerland" as we headed the press releases sent in by our advertisers, and damning the sheet for the gutless wonder it always has been-but there were times when I think our work refuted your claim the paper was run by "smalltown newspapermen...
About the same date ex-Plunger Joseph Patrick Kennedy, on vacation from the U. S. Embassy in London, reached home. Whatever he thought privately about economic conditions, he said in his public capacity that only a war would put the market (and therefore business) down to where it was in the grim spring...
...their anticipations is the fact that at the end of the quarter which showed this 110% increase in earnings, stock prices were unsteady and only 33% up from the same date a year ago. A further tip-off came from several companies' sharply curtailed budgets for capital investment in new plants. General Motors will invest $10,000,000 for expansion, a little more for improvement, in 1939 against $60,000,000 for expansion and improvement in 1937. U. S. Steel will invest $25,000,000 against $67,000,000 in "the major depression year...