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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Premier Blum's Popular Front, was abolished. The ordinary budget (exclusive of emergency arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until May. The recovery program pinched almost everyone, but the most anguished cries came from the labor unions, whose protestant general strike failed...
Last week, M. Reynaud proudly claimed credit because production had increased 12%; the excess of savings deposits over withdrawals was $113,446,500; and, most important, France's gold supply had mounted from 55,808,000,000 to 87,266,000,000 francs. And last week when the Government went into the market for a six-billion franc defense loan, Frenchmen expressed their confidence in the nation's finances by oversubscribing it in a few hours, breaking all French records for an issue of that size...
...aide mémoire (an informal preliminary diplomatic note) the Japanese Government proposed far-reaching changes in the Government of the Shanghai International Settlement-changes which would give the Japanese virtual control of the Settlement. Chief Japanese demands were for more voting power for the Japanese residents of the International Settlement so that more Japanese could be elected to the Municipal Council. Other demands were for administrative and court "reforms." Just before going on leave, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew handed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita the U. S. reply. It was a strong rejection of all Japanese demands...
...prodigious B Minor Mass. He conducted every Festival thereafter until his death in 1933, achieved such marvels of choral attack and expression that Bethlehem became almost as famous for singing as for steel. Guarantors who helped him with the annual Festival included Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Charles M. Schwab...
...pictures, another $2,500,000 to advertise them. Headliners: Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here (shelved in 1936); The Wizard of Oz in Technicolor; Northwest Passage with Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor; Quo Vadis?; The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming at M-G-M was borrowed by Producer Walter Wanger and made an overnight sensation in Algiers. M-G-M...