Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British armament shares were booming at such a rate last week that Labor's irate, pacifist London Daily Herald was able to cite 13 leading issues which have risen an average of 207% since His Majesty's Government started the boom with their $1,500,000,000 program of new armaments (TIME, Nov. 11). Urged to dampen this speculative rise by promising that His Majesty's Government will by law curtail armorers' profits, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said: "Great as the power of government is, I am afraid we can't control the speculator...
Even more spectacular has been the jump in shares of British shipyards, recently down & out, now all set to build warboats. The disgusted Daily Herald, after first severely warning its Labor readers that they will probably lose their shirts if they jump into the market now, tantalizingly explained that a nest egg of $2,500 invested one year ago in three ship-building and two aircraft stocks would today have become a tidy little fortune...
With regard to the results obtained from the CRIMSON-Herald-Tribune Poll Governor Curley smiled again as he said, "The recent CRIMSON poll predicting the defeat of Roosevelt proves one thing conclusively, for Harvard prognostications like those of Washington are never right. It means that Roosevelt will carry at least 40 states in the next election...
...striking contrast to their stand on previous questions, the usually Republican Harvard students overwhelmingly favored concentration of power in the Federal government, according to the results of the recent CRIMSON-Herald-Tribune poll...
AGREAT DEAL of carping has been done about the inaccuracies of fact in Lucius Beebe's charming picture of Boston in "Boston and the Boston Legend." The dapper young Herald-Tribune feature writer has muffed a few punches, it is true, in his informal history of this most enigmatic of American cities. He has one or two distinguished natives living in the Back Bay when he should have said Beacon Hill and, according to more scholarly authorities, he has slipped up on some of his dates. But his book is too intrinsically fascinating and alive to be hurt much...