Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seymour Weiss was chary of comment last week but hurriedly resigned all of his posts. Yet big as was this Humpty-Dumpty off the wall, it was only one incident in a surging flood of resignations, indictments, dismissals...
...stabilization fund, pegged the Chinese dollar at 17? A surprisingly stable currency the dollar retained its value despite Japanese currency raids, Chinese military de^at" apanese political pressure on Great Britain. But last week in Shanghai political and economic pressure worked together for the first time. To check a flood of Japanese-sponsored Hua Hsing Bank notes known as "H. H. dollars," in Shanghai, the stabilization commission stopped supporting the dollar, let it "find a level more in keeping with its natural power of resistance." It settled to 13½?, stayed there. Then Britain began formula-writing with the Japanese...
Neville Miller got his first real taste of radio when, as mayor of Louisville, Ky., he directed emergency crews during the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi flood. After a spell as executive assistant to Princeton University's President Dodds, Neville Miller returned to the air, succeeded his friend, Louisville Newspaperman Mark Ethridge, as president of the National Association of Broadcasters. Today his rich baritone, speaking for 428 N. A. B. members, is an articulate voice for the U. S. radio industry. Last week, with the industry noisily congregated at N. A. B.'s 17th annual convention in noisy Atlantic City...
...Advancement of Science convention in Milwaukee. Dr. Brooks recalled that, when a hurricane hit Manhattan in 1821, the tide in the Hudson River rose 13 feet in an hour. If another such storm should happen to strike during a high spring tide and with the Hudson in flood, seawater would surge over lower Manhattan, engulfing the Battery, part of the financial district; water would pour down the subway entrances and fill the tubes, trapping passengers like flies; and the automobile traffic tunnels under the Hudson would fill up from end to end with solid cylinders of water...
...movement in London, favors the theory that concessions to Hitler will bring Dr. Schacht and his orthodox economics back to Berlin. It has a highly lucrative and increasingly important sideline in helping frightened European capitalists put their money into good safe American dollars. On the receiving end of this flood of gold from Europe is Lazard Freres of Manhattan, not entirely Aryan, not a Wall Street insider, still correspondent (but no longer a partner) of the highly political London and Paris Lazard banks. Lazard's of Manhattan underwrites securities and, above all, does a big business in foreign exchange...