Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Hays Hammond Sr., 81, famed mining engineer, President Taft's most trusted confidant and adviser; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass. Hired by Cecil Rhodes in 1893 at his own terms, he successfully introduced deep-level mining in the Rand Gold Field, made money hand over fist. For his part in the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, he was sentenced to death, finally went free for a $125,000 fine...
...Adam Weishaupt of Bavaria, and which caused the fomenting of revolutions in Europe." From Adam Weishaupt it was only a step to Karl Marx, and from Karl Marx Mrs. Brosseau proceeded to the New Deal. Imploring her audience to "work together to keep the Constitution on the upper level and the American flag floating," she continued: "I wonder how many who draw dividends and love them have written to their Congressmen their views on the present tax law under consideration. . . . Echoing through the rosy dawn of each new day is the still small voice of admonition: 'Work...
Today Coach Whiteside concentrated on racing starts against the Freshman boat. In the rougher water of the New London course, the Yardlings and the Jayvees have been experiencing some difficulty in keeping the boat level, but have been increasing their power at a padding stroke. The program calls for a two-mile time trial for the Freshmen on Thursday with the Second Varsity boat furnishing the opposition...
...fathoms deeper than its banks for the first 85 miles. At that point the present sounding is 600 ft. Then the river began to cut deeper. Few miles farther on the gorge is 2,400 ft. deep, eight miles wide, and its bottom is 3.000 ft. below present sea level. Greatest depth of the gorge from brink to bottom is 3.600 ft., which beats Colorado's Royal Gorge by 1,000 ft. It becomes shallower near the mouth which is 7,500 ft. under the ocean surface. North of it is another deep groove, 15 miles long, which further...
...that a bond was brought out at a time when bond prices generally were very high, as is the case at present, the market price at some time during the life of the security declines. . . . The banker does not make prices. Nor is the banker responsible for the high level at which investment securities are selling today. The Government itself, by the various ways in which it is contributing toward easy money, is one of the responsible factors, and when subsequently prices drop-as they are bound to do- and the politicians blame the bankers-as they always...