Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Dawes announced to other Chicago bankers and officials of the RFC that his bank would not open next morning; how he made it plain that he was asking no help for his bank, merely giving warning to others of the serious banking crisis in Chicago that would follow his bank's closing; how all agreed that his bank must not fail; how later, when action was started against the bank's stockholders to enforce their "double liability," General Dawes at once paid up his personal assessment of $5,200; how when the legality of the assessment...
With a layman's proverbial disregard for Biblical scholarship, I venture to place these words before you this afternoon torn from their context and ask you to read them with twentieth century eyes. If you will follow me in this I suggest you will have in hand an epitome of what you have been striving to attain during the last four years--an education...
Highlights of 1936-37 follow...
Society girls and shop girls float by on possessive arms, laughing at the weather, smoothing and beguiling the gullible male Ego. Cars start, cars stop, two bumpers clash, the paper boy shouts his news apologetically from the corner. High heels click on the wet sidewalks, wisps of conversation follow one upon another as feet come...
...saying that it would be inadvisable for this government to do anything that did not follow the lead of London, Mr. Hull faced the dilemma of our neutrality legislation. If we follow London we are the tail-end of the League of Nations; if not, we may suffer embarrassment as in the Ethiopian affair. If the United States labels Valencia as a "belligerent" without treating Germany and Italy similarly, it appears to be discriminating against the Loyalist government of Spain...