Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the Federation of German Industries, which in its time has made and upset Chancellors and governments. Last week the entire directorate resigned to be replaced by Nazi sympathizers. President of the North German Lloyd, 73-year-old Philip Heineken, resigned too. The cinema industry, from which Nazi leaders expect a great deal in the way of propaganda, shut down completely while government leaders prepared rules to forbid Jewish actors, executives, salesmen...
Board of Traders asked each other: "Why else did Curtis Bean Dall buy a seat on the Board of Trade a week ago? He must expect it." Mr. Ball's father-in-law in the White House (where Mr. Dall visited over the weekend) took pains to foster the inflation psychology pointed out to the closed but not silent corporation of White House newshawks four points, all "anti-deflationary": 1) release of $4,000,000,000 in deposits still tied up in closed banks, 2) guarantee of Federal reserve deposits with a $2.000,000,000 fund, 3) higher crop...
...agriculture, and commerce departments. Quite a few bureaus can be absolutely abolished, while some can be radically cut down. We though we had sufficient power to accomplish everything in this line but there are several economies, amounting to 50 or 60 million dollars, which are not provided for. I expect that these loose ends will be covered in a new bill which will be introduced in a short time. Since at least $100,000,000 will be saved from the post office department alone, the total sum of our economies in this direction will be large...
...face of these three phobias against the colored race, the Semites, and the Communists, it is unreasonable to expect anything good to come out of Alabama. Barring the very improbable Constitutional change necessary to remove the administration of capital crimes from local areas to Federal control, the Scottsboro boys can at the most hope for a commutation of sentence from electrocution of sentence from electrocution to life imprisonment. Until the prejudices permeating Southern thought are liquidated it will continue to be obvious that the eye-bandage Justice wears to insure an impartial weighing of the scales is made of transparent...
Rumanians expect scandal, sometimes murder, never suicide. Popescu's act shocked the country and Premier Vaida-Voevod's Cabinet was suddenly very rocky. Rattled Army men began "exposing" one another...