Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago has made a Roman Holiday of the return of this 74-year-old man to the city he calls home. I do not know Mr. Insull, but, although I lost in his company, yet I feel his motive was not to defraud. He was a victim of the times. He is not the only one in these United States. . . . And how soon Chicago has forgotten Mr. Insult's benefits to the city!! This man is being crucified before he has an opportunity to testify...
...production rose from 1,300,000 bbl. in the 1928-29 season to 3,600,000 bbl. in the 1930-31 season. This was more than the world could use either in soap or in European margarine. So in 1931-32 most of the Antarctic companies declared a whaling holiday and production dropped to 775,000 bbl. In the season just closed production was some 2,400,000 barrels worth about $26,000,000. But some 1,800,000 bbl. still overhang the market and another holiday next year is by no means improbable. Only British whaling company with publicly...
...proclamation of Governor David Sholtz all Florida last week celebrated a holiday in commemoration of Recovery. Things that made Floridians rejoice: ¶ Bank clearings up 35% over 1933. ¶ Construction up 132%. ¶ Postal receipts up 19%. ¶ Newspaper advertising up 26.6%. ¶ Railroad traffic...
...rioted again. Soldiers this time killed one, wounded 16. Spain. An almost complete general strike tied up Spain for the day. Killed: 1; wounded: 14. Chile. Tight censorship closed the Press after clashes between Santiago crowds and mounted carabineros had killed one, wounded 13. Russia. Moscow celebrated the national holiday for two days. The first was given over to the traditional military display in the Red Square, reviewed by Dictator Stalin and War Commissar Klimentiy Voroshilov. The second day was a thoroughgoing bourgeois fiesta. Buildings were strung with electric lights, loudspeakers blared dance music in the streets, truckloads of actors...
...spent a night away from his chambers in the Vatican, third floor front. He has left Vatican City only half a dozen times since he gained his freedom by the Lateran Treaties in 1929. Last week it was announced that the Pope would presently leave for a two-month holiday in the Barberine Palace at Castel Gandolfo in the cool Alban Hills, 17 miles from Rome. There he will hold regular audiences, stroll through his vineyards and gardens, admire his cows in their spotless stalls, his chickens in their gayly decorated little coops...