Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note from your article "Der Vashington Pust" in TIME, June 26, that those Shylocks, the music publishers, have been at it again with the victim this time no less a personage than the late John Philip Sousa...
What Tiberius looked like must still remain unknown despite the panels lately found under the Palazzo della Cancelleria, incidentally the most impressive artistic discovery made in Rome since the days of the Renaissance. In reporting that the main figure on the panels was the morose Emperor, TIME (June 12) was repeating an early opinion of their discoverer, Dr. Filippo Maggi. Yesterday, before the Pontifical Academy of Archeology, Dr. Maggi corrected himself, proved to many, but not all, the academicians' satisfaction that the emperor in question is Vespasian, that perhaps another figure in the marble pageant is Domitian. The Cancelleria...
Spite and silver were the amalgam holding together last fortnight's Senate coalition of Republicans and hard-money Democrats which furiously filibustered the Monetary Bill beyond midnight of June 30 when Franklin Roosevelt's power to pare the dollar died and with it the Treasury's exchange stabilization fund. Silver and pressure were what Franklin Roosevelt used last week to split the coalition, pass the bill, revive both fund and power...
Opposed by the House as money for a "joy ride" (TIME, June 12), but shoved through with the third deficiency bill by Senate pressure, $340,000 became available last week to send Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd back to Little America, claim a lot more of it for the U. S. The far-roving mind of Franklin Roosevelt was captivated by Admiral Byrd's arguments for this venture and last week, after a map session at his desk, he ordered the expedition to proceed by early October. In on the planning were Commandant (Rear Admiral) Russell Randolph Waesche...
United's first year was its easiest. On its first birthday, it celebrated the doubling of its assets (to $323,307,177). During the first half of 1930-in the lull that preceded the worst of Depression-United stubbornly bought more utility stocks, by June had increased its assets another 67% to $539,585,596. By March 1931, when U. S. business began a steep two-year nose dive, United had increased its assets to a peak of $594,603,470. Two years later during the famed investigation which sired the Securities Exchange Act, Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora brought...