Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclaimed by Secretary Wallace before July 15, divided among the wheat-producing States, counties, divided by county committees (including the Department of Agriculture's extension agent) among individual farmers. If the price (currently $1.11 a bushel in Manhattan) is less than 52% of the parity-price on June 15, or if the July crop estimate forecasts a bumper year, Secretary Wallace with the President's approval can make loans from 52% up to 75% of the parity price. Like the "nonrecourse loans" currently being given, on cotton, these loans are in effect Government payments in advance...
...Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Senator Sherman Minton, to have well in hand when he arrives are: 1) the boom for Paul V. McNutt for President of the U. S. in 1940, and 2) the defeat of Senator Frederick Van Nuys for party nominee at the-State convention in June...
...head of the national bank system, possibly because he plans to run for Governor of California. Last week Jefty dispatched to Congress the 75th annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency - a 208-page booklet summarizing not only the status of U. S. national banks as of last June 30 but also Jefty O'Connor's accomplishments in almost five years of work...
...East to cash in on the publicity value of the daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom...
Vanderbilt University, which today has 1,607 students, a $6,775,000 plant and $22,500,000 endowment, was urged to lead the South out of. its educational wilderness. The University owes its eminence to Oliver Carmichael's predecessor, old James Hampton Kirkland (TIME, June 21, et ante), who in his 44 years as chancellor wrested control of the institution from the Methodist Church, raised its scholastic standards, boosted its endowment from slightly more than $1,000,000 to $22,500,000. Nearly all the endowment and plant came from three igth-Century industrial Titans...