Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Board of Trade since 1881; in Chicago. He was famed as a weather guesser, basing his guesses on the direction of the prevailing winds on the Catholic prayer & fast days before each solstice & equinox (ember-days). He bet the temperature would not go to zero between Dec. 20, 1930 and March 1, 1931, collected $1,250 from fellow Board members...
Earlier in the day M. Herriot had been asked by the U. S. Embassy whether France will make her debt payment of $19,261,432 due the U. S. on Dec. 15. Promptly the Premier answered in dead earnest that France will pay. Next day the whole Paris Press flayed M. Herriot, reminded him that it is for the Chamber of Deputies to decide this week whether France will...
...Dec. 23, 1787, H. M. S. Bounty, left England for Tahiti. She never came back...
...Adams appointed Democrat Walter Walker, newspaper publisher (Grand Junction Sentinel) to the vacancy caused by the death of Republican Senator Charles Winfield Waterman. Present Senate lineup: Democrats, 48; Republicans, 47; Farmer Laborite, I. Enveloped in legal uncertainty was the question of whether Senator-designate Walker would take his seat Dec. 5 or whether Colorado would elect a short-term Senator in November...
...which they were offered 25% in cash, 75% in three-year 6% notes. Last week on the day that the old notes fell due only 71% of their holders had assented to the offer. For the first time since the Wabash defaulted interest after it was in receivership (TIME, Dec. 14) a major U. S. railroad was in default. A receivership action was promptly started by a note-holder...