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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would make it possible to issue about $6,000,000,000 of new currency on a metal basis, namely, on a gold reserve. Congress authorized the President to issue greenbacks up to $3,000,000,000, which would not have any metallic reserve behind them, so it would be difficult for the new money issued with that gold profit behind it to be called true inflation...
...most sympathetic with Mr. Roosevelt," said Mr. Takahashi. "He is facing the more difficult situation. . . . Japan's administration is centralized, while authority in the United States is diffused between the Federal Government, the States and other agencies. Moreover the United States dollar is an international currency, while the Japanese yen is less important internationally and less subject to speculation...
...nine-meter wave. We have picked up short words encircling the globe several times. It takes one-seventh of a second for a word to girdle the globe. I have intercepted the word 'no' after it sped around the world several times. The trick is difficult with longer words. At times like that the world as a laboratory is too small...
...devious promoter of an assistant Tammany ticket to break the anti-Tammany vote, or as the clumsy agent of the President's disgust with Tammany and his determination to set up a less heinous Democracy in New York. Both of these accusations cannot be true; indeed it is difficult to decide which of them is, but in any case the Secretary has bogged himself in an unpretty fashion, and must lose much of the political prestige which alone made him valuable...
From Mr. Hammond and Mr. Atkinson come the reports that "Ah Wilderness" is not what it might be, and that George M. Cohan carries the play by himself, making the evening quite pleasant. The greatest contemporary American play-wright,--so I have heard--Eugene O'Neill, has a difficult task in maintaining his reputation. When he was in Provincetown, he was comparatively unknown. He wrote slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until...