Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owners of those ears had already discovered that the only man who could very well do something was Franklin Roosevelt. In his Commodity Credit Corporation's purse he had $135,000,000 with which he could peg the price of cotton at 10? or 9?. Long ago Congress had...
While Congress was having its busiest days of the year last week, the U. S. State Department was doing almost as well. By week's end, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had: 1) announced an important trade pact with Soviet Russia. 2) proposed a U-Sail-It warship renting...
Like harvest time in the wheat belt, like the fishing season on the Grand Banks, the opening of the dressmaking season is, to Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the...
Few days later, Cabino Vásquez, head of the Agrarian Department, arrived in the Yucatan peninsula with brigades of surveyors, engineers and technical assistants, ready to split the expropriated estates into small farms and ejidos, communal allotments.
Roughneck, big-hearted Samuel Zemurray, Managing Director of United Fruit Co. (bananas, ships, wireless, rail-roads), gave $380,000 worth of his company's' stock to found a child guidance clinic in New Orleans, where he made his fortune in bananas, fostered Central American revolutions and still lives...