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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never wears an overcoat and who has long since discarded the eyeglasses he wore as a young man, rushed down to Washington and taking Housing Administrator Moffett by the arm, began to talk like an express train. "Look at the millions of dollars banks and insurance companies have," said he to Mr. Moffett, "but are afraid to invest. Put a government guarantee on my mortgage and they will not be afraid. The Housing Administration has never guaranteed a $5,500,000 mortgage or anything like it, you say? Well, what of it? The law does not forbid it. Give...
...that good lady's reign (1702-14) to support rural clergy. Of the thousands of husbandmen who in the past four years have rebelled against tithe-paying (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933), none have been more stubborn than the men of Kent. Last February a London Express man found scores of them locked & barred in their homes, ready to repel bailiffs...
...series of photographs published last fortnight by the London Daily Express, showing Golden Miller, favorite in the Grand National Steeplechase, clearing the first fence after Valentine's Brook while his jockey, for no apparent reason, fell off, thus saving British bookmakers almost $10,000,000, a likely sequel was revealed last week...
...Clark to restrict the issuance of passports and the making of loans to belligerent nations are of particular significance at this time, since the policy of Great Britain at the forthcoming Stresa Conference depends largely upon the attitude of the United States. The Nye-Clark resolutions, which express a willingness to abandon our traditional insistence on the "freedom of the seas" in a technically legal sense, would--if adopted--encourage the English in the belief that the American navy would not oppose British blockade of an aggressor nation. Thus the way for acceptance by England of greater responsibility...
...East, Britain is concerned only indirectly, and can hardly be expected to enter into alliances with France and Italy which commit her beyond all recall. To use a phrase dear to Grey, "British public opinion would never sanction" such a commitment. Britain is unlikely to do more than express her strong disapproval of recent events in Germany. She will doubtless indulge herself, through the mouths of Sir John Simon and Ramsay MacDonald, in many pious wishes, none of which, because of the armament situation, are possible of solution...