Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared its tail into flying position, bobbled the length of the field like an angry bumblebee across a windowpane. When it hit a barbed-wire fence at the field's end, the Flapjack flipped over, came to ignominious rest in a freshly fertilized cornfield...
...Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy." At the end of a full day's talk the businessmen and schoolmen were farther apart than ever. Messrs. Houston & Co. accused the educators of threatening U. S. Liberties. Confessed Professor John L. Childs (chairman of the committee that "clarified" the issues) : "I for one, in my work, daily am letting business down...
...Treasury Morgenthau, FDIC Chairman Leo Crowley, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Marshall Diggs and several Federal Reserve officers sat down to see if the simplification could not be accomplished without legislation. First problem tackled was bank examinations, now conducted differently by all three agencies. At week's end it was reported the conferees agreed to have not only a uniform examination blank but also uniform interpretations of such important matters as determination of the depreciation of securities...
...last year Dick Whitney again was scratching for pennies. Between May 19 and the end of the year he got a succession of bank loans-$50,000 from the Corn Exchange Bank, $75,000 from the Marine Midland, $75,000 from the National City, $100,000 from the Continental Bank & Trust, $80,000 from Public National-all against worthless stock in defunct companies. Apparently the Whitney front was so impressive that even these hard-boiled Manhattan banks never checked up on him at all. These loans he managed to repay...
...relief, Jimmy Durante holds down the other end of the program in a picture entitled "Start Cheering!" It is a college musical, with a winning football team, a crooning hero, and lots of co-eds. While this type of life is not to be envied, it is sometimes fun to watch...