Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settled down on the black leather seats for a party caucus, there were three outstanding candidates for the Speakership vacated by John Nance Garner. Big, white-mopped Representative Rainey, 72, considered himself "in line" for the job because he had been majority floor leader in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 19). Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, 63, lank, hollow-eyed chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was put forward as a border compromise between North and South. Alabama's John McDuffie, 49, popular party "whip" and loyal Garner friend, was the conservative South's man to perpetuate...
...become was pictured in Paris' smart illustrated weekly Vu, copies of which reached the U. S. last week. Successively, as Vu points out, the French deficit for 1933 was estimated in November 1932 by Minister of the Budget Maurice Palmade at 12,100,000,000 francs; on Dec. 26 by Chairman of the Chamber's Finance Committee Lucien Lamoureux at 16,550,000,000 and on Jan. 26 by Finance Minister Henri Cheron at 7,000,000,000 francs...
Thus, by their learned computations, eminent French statesmen turned the estimated deficit for 1933 into something like a toy balloon alternately blown up and permitted to deflate. During this process two French Cabinets-those of Edouard Herriot and Joseph Paul Boncour-re- soundingly fell (TIME, Dec. 26 & Feb. 6). Last week blustering, dynamic Premier Edouard Daiadier won vote after vote on the budget in the Chamber and Senate. His estimates reduced the expected deficit to a mere 5,566,000,000 francs...
...neither the directors nor any other Manhattan banker knew anyone who, they believed, could do an equally good job of carrying the bank safely through storm & strife. That he has done the job, Ferdinand Pecora would be the last to deny. The statement of National City Bank was, on Dec. 31, 1932, the envy of nearly every bank...
This gloomy conceit tickled Britishers so thoroughly that they have not yet tired of it. British and Australian cricket teams have this season been playing for the Ashes since Dec. 2. Last week the fourth test began at Brisbane. Australia was behind, two matches to one, but a more than respectable 340 in the first innings made the situation look more cheerful-until Hedley Verity of Yorkshire and Edward Paynter of Lancashire, with his neck wrapped in bandages to ward off a cold, pulled England out of the innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made...