Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion. According to Williams: "Great Britain and France now have their last chance to seize the leadership of Europe that has been usurped by Germany, and thus preserve peace. If they fail, then war is inevitable, probably by the beginning of summer. It will be war to the bitterest end. Germany may lose. But also she may very probably drag the world down with...
...Arthur Seyss-Inquart is still, technically, provincial Governor of Austria, but is ranked by Josef Bürckel, Reich Commissioner for Austria, who has been given the job of Nazifying the gay Viennese. Seyss-Inquart's governorship is soon to end...
...under the Budget & Accounting Act of 1921 was the office of the Comptroller General, with twofold duty of okaying Government expenditures before they are made and auditing them afterwards.* First recipient of this 15-year appointment was crusty Republican John R. McCarl, whose term did not end until 1936. So crusty was "General" McCarl that long before the New Deal spenders became his greatest antagonists, he was famed as "The Watchdog of the Treasury." Since 1933, Franklin Roosevelt has twice tried, twice failed to draw the Comptroller General's teeth through Reorganization...
...fatal. But the trouble here is too much concentrated power, power that will not stand for criticism. So I am going down to Washington and see what can be done. It is not that my own case is of special importance, but that unless something is done to end this situation there can be no independence of thought or action in American medicine...
...docks to count cases of gold being unloaded from the Queen Mary. They counted 355 cases, thus estimated that the Queen brought in some $20,000,000. This was presently dwarfed by a shipment on the Manhattan estimated at $56,000,000, largest ever. At week's end four other liners were on the way from frightened Europe with $75,000,000 more to add to the $15,007,517,132.83 (57% of the world's monetary supply) in gold already admittedly in the U. S. Treasury's hands...