Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancelling the annual New Year's reception to the public, the President spared himself an ordeal and gained valuable working time. Only holiday function at the White House was a supper dance given by Mrs. Roosevelt for 300 youngsters and her children night before New Year...
...them, there has been small welcome at the New Deal fireside. Newton Diehl Baker was practicing law in Cleveland. Carter Glass was busy holding his tongue, lest in an irrepressible moment it cry out against an Administration in which he has little confidence. John William Davis was playing holiday golf in Charleston, S. C. The only Wilsonite who had been given a high post in the new Administration, Josephus Daniels, was far away at his Embassy in Mexico City...
...Bank Holiday...
...chief kinds of tobacco grown in the South are "bright (flu-cured)," "burley," and "dark fired." Over three months ago when "bright" tobacco started to market in North and South Carolina prices were down around 10? to 12? a lb. In August North Carolina's Ehringhaus proclaimed a holiday, stopped proceedings for three weeks to give Federal Farm restriction efforts time to finish plans for next year's "bright" crop, to give other Federal agents time to get U. S. cigaret companies to agree to a minimum price of 17? per pound. When the markets reopened prices were...
...years during the 1920's they had a co-operative but it broke up when growers ceased to cooperate. During that time "nightriders" had killed some non-co-operators, destroyed the crops of others, smashed their windows. Kentucky growers threatened to start nightriding again. Governor Laffoon proclaimed a holiday. The Governors of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina followed suit in an effort to do for "burley" what a holiday had done for "bright...