Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were boosted. In two States-Kentucky and Oklahoma- where Roosevelt Senators happen to be threatened in primary elections, the boosts were sharpest of all. No explanation was given except that "the President and Mr. Hopkins wanted it that...
...home last week, Japan pulled her belt in another notch, prepared for further strain., Additional sections of the National Mobilization act, which places the nation on war footing, were invoked, to ration war essentials, curtail imports except war materials, control commodity prices. New War Minister Seishiro Itagaki gloomily admitted: "The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese resolve to continue fighting at least ten years." The Imperial Council will meet soon for the sixth...
...London. Except for the Harvard-Yale football game, the greatest event of the year for Harvard or Yale men is Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
...city of 500,000 population except Washington, D. C. has five daily newspapers. Result has been that only one- Frank Brett Noyes's stodgy Star-has made money; seldom have they achieved any particular journalistic distinction. Five years ago among the least distinguished was the Post. When former Federal Reserve Board Governor and RFC Chairman Eugene Meyer bought the rundown property in 1933 for $825,000, few thought that a banker, entering the publishing business at the age of 57, would make newspaper history...
...speculative limits. Thereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace announced that to prevent undue price fluctuation from speculation, the Commission proposed: 1) a 2,000,000 bu. limit on net long or short positions in all futures combined or any one contract market (3,000,000 in "spread positions") except during the delivery month when the limit would be cut to 1,000,000; 2) a daily trading limit per person of 2,000,000 bu. in all futures combined, also cut to 1,000,000 in the delivery month, These limitations, which will not apply to bona fide hedging operations...