Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Washington came Secretary of Commerce Roy Dikeman Chapin. a Detroit man. and Under Secretary of the Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine. Most of Detroit's industrial and banking tycoons jammed the smoke-blue room. At 2 a. m. Governor Comstock announced simply that he would declare a holiday. Over the violent protest of the bankers, he told the "unvarnished story" of Union Guardian's plight...
...Detroit Stock Exchange closed during the day. Outside trading of bank stocks was banned. On the New York exchanges both stocks and bonds slumped sharply. Meantime throughout Michigan plans were rushed to permit withdrawals for household accounts and payrolls. General modification of the "holiday"' was envisaged...
...therefore, I, Oscar Kelly Allen, Governor of the State of Louisiana, do hereby ordain that Saturday, the 4th day of February, 1933 . . . be a holiday throughout the State . . . and I do hereby order that all public business, including schools, banks and other public enterprises be suspended . . . and that the proper ceremonies to commemorate that event be held...
...Rudolf Hecht's side last week rallied Huey Long and his puppet Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. It was Huey Long, in New Orleans to fight a Senate investigation of his political steamroller, who ordered a public holiday on Saturday to give the Hibernia a 48-hour breathing spell over the weekend. But no one at the Friday night conference could recall any historic event that occurred on Feb. 4. Routed from his bed, the city librarian ploughed through volumes of histories. Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast...
...Orleans was thrown into uproar. With banks closed, Saturday night payrolls were not met. Many Negro laborers, living hand-to-mouth, could not buy food. Department stores flatly refused to cash checks. Until news of the holiday-making conference leaked out, newspaper offices were swamped with inquiries from mystified subscribers wanting to know what it was all about...