Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gold Cup cost $730, is gold plate on silver. Experts estimate that motorboat enthusiasts have spent $40,000,000 trying to win it. Last week, on Lake George, N. Y., five long-nosed hydroplanes zoomed over the dark green water getting ready for the start. On the eve of the race, two had broken down and withdrawn. Of the three remaining, the favorite was George Reis's El Lagarto, winner in 1933 and 1934 and one of the most remarkable boats afloat...
...Chief clues were the President's outburst after the Supreme Court's NRA decision, his letter three weeks ago urging passage of the Guffey Bill despite "doubt as to [its] constitutionality, however reasonable." From these, political detectives surmised that the President expects the Supreme Court, on the eve of next year's election, to throw out almost his whole program, whereupon he will go to the country declaring in effect...
...bills are added the AAAmendments, and others, Washington saw in the making a deliberate policy by the President to overwhelm the Supreme Court with a mass of New Deal legislation of doubtful Constitutionality. If the Supreme Court is forced to throw most of it out next year on the eve of a Presidential campaign in a series of unpopular decisions, President Roosevelt will presumably go to the country and say in effect: "We tried to do things to help you but the Supreme Court wouldn't let us. Therefore let us have a Constitutional Amendment which will limit...
Fearful on the eve of his 96th birthday lest two front teeth would have to be extracted because he bit a cherry pit four years ago, John D. Rockefeller Sr. visited his dentist. Reassured to learn that his 19 teeth were all sound, he quietly celebrated his birthday on his 500-acre estate near Lakewood, N. J. Biggest Rockefeller birthday present was $5,000,000 in cash representing the face value of his insurance policies. The money was returned to him because he had outlived the actuarial tables, which do not go above...
...almost $29,000,000,000, the highest point in our history, we may safely say that there is a greater saturation of investments in Government bonds-among our people than ever before. Just as soon as the rank & file of our people become convinced that we are upon the eve of a period of inflation ... we will witness a repetition of the experience of the early 20's, when Government bonds sank below 85 under similar conditions...