Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the Treasury announced that next week it would sell $900,000,000 of Government securities, and U. S. citizens digested the fact that on Dec. 16 they would wake to look upon the first $30,000,000,000 public debt in U. S. history...
...midnight last week the S. S. Aquitania put out from New York carrying three oldsters tucked away securely in three of her best bunks. The gentlemen were London-bound with no time to spare, for they were the U. S. delegates to the 1935 Naval Limitation Conference opening Dec. 9. Only fortnight ago President Roosevelt appointed them. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, chief of the delegation, was named to go because attending conferences is his job. Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of Naval Operations, went along because it was Navy business. Undersecretary of State William Phillips was selected because...
...progress painfully slow and stormy. By July 1 not a single new job had been made. When the next major deadline, Nov. 1, came & went with the goal less than half achieved. President Roosevelt cautiously predicted that "a great majority" of the promised jobs would have been provided by Dec. 1. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins flatly set that date as the last & final deadline for ending the Federal dole, with the idea that all 3,500,000 citizens would then be at work...
...cannot force a holding company to register but Title I of the Act states that "after Dec. 1, 1935, unless a holding company is registered . . . it shall be unlawful for such holding company, directly or indirectly" to transact normal business. Maximum fine for each violation: $200,000. SEChairman James McCauley Landis has made registration easy, insisting that filing will not impair the powermen's right to challenge the Act's constitutionality at a later date. Last week in a final effort to woo the industry under the wire Chairman Landis offered to accept "conditional" registration which would...
Abide With Me (by Clare Boothe Brokaw; Malcolm L. Pearson, Donald E. Baruch, A. H. Woods, producers). Up to last week the meanest, man to walk a Broadway stage in a decade was Stanley Vance, central character of The Dark Tower (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Vance, a homosexual sadist, kept white mice in his bedroom, cowed a family living in one of Manhattan's fine old gloomy mansions, finally sent his poor wife into a trance...