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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stave off anti-Christian totalitarianism by making the U. S. "a thoroughly decent place to live in." Michael Williams, still a special editor of The Commonweal, protested in the same issue against this change of front, declared he was satisfied by the available evidence (principally the joint letter of the bishops of Spain) that Spanish Leftists had planned to wipe out the Catholic religion...
Month ago, financial writer and Lecturer L. Merle Hostetler decided that business men's "confidential" news letters were too gloomy, began experimenting with a letter of his own "openly and avowedly a resume of only the favorable features in the outlook for trade, industry and finance." Result was Hostetler's Good News Letter. With a suddenly bullish stockmarket. Good News had plenty of good news for this week...
Helen ("Piddle") and Cornelia ("Tobe") Storm, believed oldest spinster twins in the East, descendants (7th generation) of Dutch Immigrant Dirck Storm (1653), gave their 84th birthday party at Fishkill, N. Y. To their 50-odd guests the sisters proudly displayed a letter of congratulations sent by Dutch-descended Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...banks have $2,780,000,000 in excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing examinations. Fortnight ago, in a letter to Senator Vandenburg, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles suggested that bank regulations should be loosened in depressions when credit is needed, tightened in booms (TIME, June...
Died. Donald Jolley Foss, 54, Wooster, Ohio, brush manufacturer; in Detroit. In a letter to TIME (Dec. 31, 1934), Mr. Foss started a readers' controversy by calling burial expenditures "heathenishly extravagant," advocated a 100% tax on them. Last week, under the terms of his will, the remains of Donald Foss were cremated, the ashes scattered on his farm with no extravagant monument to mark them...