Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest tax proposal (see p. 13) President Roosevelt worked long & hard last week over a tougher, more immediate problem -Relief. He had made it his peculiar personal problem when he asked and got from Congress $4,000,000,000 and the right to spend it as he saw fit. With this fat fund firmly in hand, his promise to the country was to end the dole and give 3,500,000 jobless real jobs. And by last week he was up against a hard mathematical fact: $4,000,000,000 divided among 3,500,000 jobs gave only...
...June 16, 1933 U. S. bankers were privileged to borrow from their own banks all that their own banks saw fit to lend. On that date the Banking Act of 1933 went into effect. One of its provisions prohibited bankers from borrowing from their own banks. Another required them to repay all such intramural loans by June 16, 1935. As that date approached last week many a borrowing banker was in a cold sweat. Loans outstanding totaled nearly $90,000,000. Penalty for failure to pay was fixed by the Banking Act at one year in jail, $5,000 fine...
...weighed and examined, as he had been on March 30 when he began his beer diet test. He had just let the 7,000-lb. beer truck loaded down with the entire Hollywood baseball team ride over his chest to indicate his sustained vitality. Dr. Sebastian reported Gough physically fit in every respect, whereupon the Legionnaire strongman was whisked to the Los Angeles Times' Cooking School to address more than 1,000 women for a period of nearly two hours...
Alice Queenie Puddifoot is a masseuse with a shop in London's Albemarle Street. Lately unkind individuals complained to the London County Council that Miss Puddifoot was no fit person to be in the massage business, demanded that her license be revoked. Miss Puddifoot was vindicated, her license renewed. But most London newspapers covering the hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts...
...analyses of the new industry. Some people cocked a skeptical eye at the mushrooming of William Fox or the Brothers Warner but certainly Paramount Publix seemed a citadel of cinematic conservatism. Indeed, Paramount was the $300,000,000 medium through which the House of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. had seen fit to lift the film industry to the financial equal of steel and railroads. But Paramount had an Achilles heel. In the process of acquiring the world's longest theatre chain (1,600), the company had wisely paid in common stock instead of in cash from the proceeds of bond...