Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-New Dealers predicted and hoped that with Roosevelt on the run, and Government spending on the way out, private capital would go back to work, would more than make up investment-wise for the $3,000,000,000-odd of new Government money which the New Deal has pumped into the U. S. economy each year. Their hopes were raised when smiling, soft-spoken Acting Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes announced last week that business was doing fine, ". . . We are on the eve of what may be a real forward movement...
...mood to let events take their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit for saving business from the fate to which they claim Congress has doomed...
Smartest of the Nolan promotions are four parking lots, away from the business district, where Detroiters can park their cars for 15?, go downtown and back for another 15?, save parking troubles downtown. Another good one is a New Year's Eve service for drunks: D.S.R. busses deliver tipsy roisterers to their front doors...
...Sharply at 8:45 o'clock each workday morning the officers of the world's largest hat factory sit down at a worn, carved oak round table, go over the morning mail addressed "John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, Pa.", and discuss company matters. Since last June when Stetson's third president, George V. MacKinnon died, the president's chair has been vacant. This week it was occupied. Fourth head of the 74-year-old Stetson business was robust, grey-haired, 43-year-old George L. Russell Jr., former vice president and treasurer. After a miserable...
...spoken Innkeeper Seth Hammond Ownley, "is forever hunting 'characters' and forgetting to look in the looking glass for a specimen." Novelist Lincoln, now 69, comes of a seafaring Cape family, was once a commercial artist. To make his drawings sell better, he wrote verses and jokes to go with them. Soon the verses outsold the pictures. Cap'n Eri, his first novel, was a bestseller in 1904; he has been publishing bestsellers ever since...