Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undesirable results which Mr. Pomerene predicts will attend the publication, the sobering effects of the bank holiday and its concomitant fiscal reorganization should act as a balancing factor. The last week has made it clear that there were certainly few banks in the United States which could not easily have used government loans. And there is no reason to believe that the actual beneficiary banks were any weaker than their competitors, but merely that they may have been more influential. Such is not the stuff of which panics are made. Perhaps more significant, however, than the actual publication of lists...
...spite of the fact that subscriptions for the Album have been pledged slowly because of the bank holiday, all subscriptions must be in by Saturday, April...
...Barter blossomed. In Ashtabula a newspaper offered to print free advertisements of goods for swapping. Two commodity exchanges in Milwaukee found long lines of would-be customers waiting on their doorsteps the morning after the Wisconsin holiday went into effect. A wrestler signed a contract for a match with any opponent accepting as payment a can of tomatoes and a peck of potatoes. In Manhattan, admission to a Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament could be had for cigars, combs, soap, chisels, groceries, kettles-anything worth 50?, plus 5? cash for taxes...
California's bank holiday proclamation took the guests of Pasadena's smart Huntington Hotel by surprise. The hotel decided to issue scrip negotiable within its walls for tips, cigars, newspapers, cosmetics, haircuts. Among those who lined up at the cashier's window to get their scrip: onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett, Banker Henry G. Lapham of Boston, Edward Bausch (& Lomb), President William G, Stuber of Eastman Kodak Co., onetime President Charles Doran of Sperry Gyroscope Co., John Hays Hammond, Packer Edward A. Cudahy Jr., Princess Erik...
...four other contests, Boston College has always been victorious. Since the debate usually draws a sizeable audience, it had been planned to hold it in Jordan Hall in Boston. The banking holiday interfered with the sale of tickets, however, so it was decided to hold the contest in the Boston College Auditorium, where admission will...