Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the emergency which called it into being. For a year it had been chiefly winding up its affairs, collecting old loans, making few new ones.* But President Roosevelt wanted its lending powers, and those of four subordinate credit agencies,** extended to June 30, 1939. A bill to that effect was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee...
...that the Government could save $30,000,000 per year by consolidating its credit agencies. One item in the Institution's program was transfer of RFC's as sets to some other agency as soon as its lending activities had ceased. Since reorganization should begin to take effect by July 1938, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment extending RFC only to that date...
Like Black Fury and I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Black Legion makes no effort to mollify its message. Robert Lord's vigorous story investigates the Legion from three angles: its effect on Tay lor, its purpose of making money for a crew of cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot...
...face of the popular acclaim which greeted Transcontinental & Western Air last autumn when it cut its fares to railroad levels. Though rivals scoffed, TWA last week complacently claimed that its low fares were proving ideal. TWA passenger traffic in November, first month the low fares were in effect, was 122% greater than in November...
...sailors. In New York's Bowery or Boston's Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which went into effect Dec. 26. The bill specifies such limitations as an eight-hour, three-watch day, that 65%, of the deck force have A. B. certificates, that 75% be U. S. citizens. With many of the new rules both shipowners and seamen are pleased. With one clause, however, U. S. sailors...