Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dec. 25 was nearly half a year away, but last week AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis told U. S. wheat farmers just how good they would have to be if Santa Claus was going to keep on visiting them...
...Council to convene it next day. Somebody also telephoned Professor Jeze about 2 a. m. to come around and get the League formula. It provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired the first shots of the Ualual Incident (TIME, Dec. 24), but shall not discuss the real issue of whether Ualual is in Italian Somaliland, as Italians claim, or in Ethiopia, as Ethiopians maintain. While this is going on Italy, France and Britain will negotiate about Ethiopia among themselves and totally outside the League of Nations on the basis...
...gangster named Adam Richetti, wanted for taking part in the Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies. Last winter Attorney General Homer Still Cummings tactfully called a peace pow-wow in Washington between the conflicting parties (TIME, Dec. 24). On the theory that the camaraderie of the classroom makes for mutual understanding and friendship, it was decided that three schools should be set up within the Department of Justice. One would undertake to familiarize new district attorneys, most of whom have never seen the inside of a grand...
...Paragraph I of Article IV of the Royal Decree of Dec. 21, 1927 not even II Duce himself could reduce the gold cover behind Italy's lira below 40%. Last week the purchase of war supplies had piled up at the Bank of Italy half a billion lire ($41,250,000) worth of bills on which foreign munition makers demanded prompt payment. To have sold enough lire on foreign exchange to meet these bills would have broken the market for the lira, forced its devaluation. This could be avoided by paying out half a billion in gold from...
...monarch signed last week a fresh royal decree "suspending temporarily" the 40% gold coverage requirement in the decree of Dec. 21, 1927. They both felt so badly about this that the new decree was not published in the Italian Press, promptly stirred hornets' nests of gossip wherever Italians gathered...