Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular provision of eccentric, wealthy Lawyer Charles Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar...
Josette (Twentieth Century-Fox) will leave undecided the rumor current for some time that Simone Simon can sing. When trying she produces noises which are not unpleasing but remain unintelligible because she never lets articulation interfere with her famed pout. From time to time, it appears that Robert Young, borrowed...
¶. Declared a truce with Wall Street. SEC Chairman William O. Douglas announced in Manhattan: "The day of the crackdown on Wall Street is over. . . . The prosperity of the New York Stock Exchange is not incompatible with the national welfare." As a basis for further reform by the Exchange, Chairman...
¶ Worked closer to a truce with the utility industry. First, Mr. Douglas and five utility magnates, headed by James F. Fogarty, president of North American Co., discussed the question of whether the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 needed any revision. Mr. Douglas said no; the magnates said...
Though prices rallied slightly by week's end, they remained well below the 9? figure at which Commodity Credit Corp. bought surplus cotton last year. Organized in 1933 "to insure the orderly marketing" of cotton and other products-in short, to peg prices-Commodity Credit was once regarded as...