Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars and pounds any settlement was to be made in. Both sides were hopeful that the (See col. 3) two great off-gold nations, sitting head-to-head by themselves, might come nearer to an understanding on international currency stabilization than was possible at the many-tongued London Conference fiasco. What the temper of incoming Congress would be with regard to debt settlement, neither the President nor anyone else could predict...
...radio-priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower. Judge Keidan had given them several days each to damn the bankers for a pack of thieves. They had been almost the only witnesses who had not blamed the U. S. Government, Senator Couzens or Father Coughlin for the banking fiasco. And they both craved another chance to testify. Senator Couzens claimed he had been "prevented" from offering sensational evidence but declaimed: "While I may be denied a forum in my own State, I still have the forum of the Senate...
...Street history. In 1928, three years later, having operated Dodge at a profit of $40,000,000, the Dillon, Read Syndicate sold Dodge to Chrysler for the equivalent of $170,000,000 in Chrysler stocks. - ED. Piggish Kingfish Sirs: . . . TIME'S account of the Kingfish's washroom fiasco, not so clearly worded as most TIME articles, nevertheless left little room for doubt or imagination. It was both amusing and amazing to those of us who relied on newspapers for this information. No admirer of blatant Huey, still I feel that perhaps his conduct could be justified on physiological...
Detroit has waited a long time to hear Michigan's Senior Senator tell his story of the banking fiasco which Judge Harry B. Keidan has been probing off & on all summer (TIME, Aug. 7). For in all the reckless charges and counter-charges that have been hurled since Detroit's banks were closed last St. Valentine's Day, there has been one unifying theme: that in some mysterious way Senator James Couzens was the man who threw the monkey-wrench into the creaking machine...
...wits. In a few minutes a crowd of thousands jammed the yards. "Get those cigarets away!" shouted Commander Settle, who had pulled the ripcord to empty the bag of hydrogen. Except for a dent in the gondola the balloon and instruments were intact. Sadly Commander Settle explained the fiasco: planning to hang at 5,000 ft. until dawn, he had pulled his gas escape valve. The valve stuck open. Then it was recalled that during the last-minute fanfare the valve had been opened & closed several times while those near the balloon listened for escaping gas. Commander Settle later admitted...