Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perhaps hasty, perhaps piercing, was the conclusion leaped to by some commentators that Mr. Jones was elevated so that RFC's loan rate, which Mr. Jones has kept as near 4% as possible, might be lowered to 2½ % or even 2 %. Heir-apparent to the RFC chairmanship was Emil Schram, a member of Mr. Jones's board of directors since...
Money Bills. Extension beyond June 30 of the Treasury's $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund, of its silver purchasing power, and of the President's power to devalue the dollar further, were all voted two months ago by the House. Old Senator Glass kept the bill deadlocked in his Banking and Currency subcommittee until the White House induced Senator Miller of Arkansas to change his vote. The bill then got out to the Senate floor, with Senator Glass swearing from his sickbed that he would fight to the end against monkeying with the currency...
...outs. The Nazis, in fact, wanted it believed that His Majesty was so exasperated by British "broken promises" in the-Near East that hereafter Arab nationalists in general and Ibn Saud in particular would come to Rome and Berlin for help and guidance. Although a discreet silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply that they had talked. When the German Foreign Office mouthpiece, the Deutsche Diplo-matische Politische Korrespondenz, announced on the heels of the meeting that the Axis would support the Arabs in eliminating...
...great French need was not wheat but field-hands to reap it. France, which relies on about 500,000 migratory laborers and their families from Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia to gather its crops, this year expected Germany to hire away the Belgians while Czechs and Poles would be kept at home...
...Italy all last week Benito Mussolini's self-flown, trimotored airplane zoomed down from the sky into the busy countryside as II Duce kept a weather eye on the vital 5,400,000-hectare wheat harvest now in full swing. High winds, heavy rains and floods in May kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna...