Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polar Bears?" U. S. pundits-including the State Department-solemnly noted that President Roosevelt had "extended the Monroe Doctrine to include Canada" -overlooking the facts that: 1) President Monroe's famed message to Congress in 1823 was specifically occasioned by conversations with Imperial Russia over its Alaskan and Pacific...
¶ In Manhattan. Purgee O'Connor, chairman of the potent House Rules Committee, made frantic efforts to get the Republicans to back him against the White House candidate, one James H. Fay, deputy internal revenue collector. The Republicans decided he savored too strongly of Tammany Hall, last week named...
Wheat futures last week tumbled to 62? a bu., lowest since 1933 and 13? below the wheat loan figure (at Chicago) set last month by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Corn futures also hit the skids, dropping below 50? a bu. for the first time in four years. However...
Heavy with fruit last week were 51,000 acres of California cling peach trees. Heavy too were their owners' hearts. The Peach Protective Association telegraphed Attorney General Homer S. Cummings: "You respectfully are requested . . . to investigate the activities of the Canning Industry Board of California, an association of about...
Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie'...