Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest project in foreign affairs: to break down the forces that make peace impossible, that tend to starve nations to the point of fighting. Neutrality legislation bears on the same point, how to keep out of the fighting once it starts. Since the Trade Agreements Act expires June 12-and the present Neutrality Law May 1, Franklin Roosevelt has a quick interest in both. And Mr. Runciman, as president of Britain's Board of Trade (a position analogous to and far more potent than Secretary of Commerce in the U. S.), was there to pose some vital questions concerning...
...Senate: ¶ Passed a bill extending until June 30. 1939 the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (continuing the $2,000,000.000 Stabilization Fund and the power of the President to fix the gold content of the dollar anywhere between 50% and 60% of its old weight); sent it to the House. ¶ Suspended its rules by unanimous consent in order to confirm without referring to committee the nomination of James Aloysius Farley as Postmaster General (only member of the Cabinet whose term of office automatically ends with that of the President); confirmed the nomination of Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary...
...year-old Lawyer Dewey, whose favorite indoor sport is squash racquets, found himself in a posi-tion to become the biggest racket-squasher in the U. S. Thomas Dewey's handsome, foxy face has grown familiar to New Yorkers, but when it appeared in the newspapers in June 1935 few would have recognized it without a caption. An Owosso, Mich, boy whose grandfather was second cousin to the Admiral, he had grown up in his father's newspaper and print shop, studied at the University of Michigan, with singing lessons on the side. When he migrated to Manhattan...
...extreme, had no positive identification, were often sold by poverty-stricken sailors. In New York's Bowery or Boston's Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which went into effect Dec. 26. The bill specifies such limitations as an eight-hour, three-watch day, that 65%, of the deck force have A. B. certificates, that 75% be U. S. citizens. With many of the new rules both shipowners...
...year end held no less than 60% of the total national debt. Over bulging bond portfolios, over record bond prices, the bankers were a little jittery, fearing the inevitable upward turn in interest rates which will end the great est bull bond market in U. S. history (TIME, June...