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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...
...Minority Leader Martin took advantage of the week's lull in foreign excitement to bring out a twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received...
...famous Student Council Athletic Report was released more than a week ago, and the decision made on it by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports will not be available until more than a week hence, but there hasn't been the slightest lull in undergraduate interest in the proposal...
...exists in the Square. Their attitude has rather been curiously apathetic, a halting disapproval which has never been vigorous enough to drive them to organized warfare. This apathy has naturally enervated any other groups with vested interests in the problem. Just how the administrative officers have been able to lull themselves into such a pleasant slumber is an interesting question...
...sputtering among Europe's political high explosives, China's War has recently looked like a chain of twopenny firecrackers. But if a possible European blow-up involved Russia, what Japan was doing in the Far East would become vitally important. For some time there has been a lull in hostilities during which Japan was reported moving large numbers of troops to Manchukuo-on hand for anti-Russian duty. Last week Japan ended the lull and made it clear that while its right hand remained clenched against Russia, its left was going right on lighting firecrackers against China...