Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wide of the mark was the Assistant Attorney General. Of 6,910 executive orders issued by 31 U. S. Presidents, 1,013 have been signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt chiefly under the emergency powers delegated to him by Congress. He in turn has delegated most of these quasi-legislative powers to NIRB, FACA and the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture. Last summer the American Bar Association estimated that in its first year NRA had forbidden some 5,000 business practices, written 10,000 pages of substantive law. Last week investigation disclosed that in 1934 NRA has issued 10.269 administrative...
...change in the Church Year which was favorably discussed last fortnight at the meeting of the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 17). Last week the Episcopal Churchman published the following comment by Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, voluble, mystical rector of Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...
...Depression, while it always rises last, always rises fastest. Accordingly, I suggest that not later than June or July of next year should be the beginning of the great sustained demand for durable goods due to the accumulation for five years of postponed demands, and this time should also mark the commencement of the year of full business prosperity in this country...
...sale of silverware. So many of our customers have asked how we came out that we feel that this report should be given. The mark we were aiming at was the $44,000 sale of the Slavick Jewelry Co. of Los Angeles. . . . Our sale fell short by many thousand dollars, total sales here being...
...Wedding Rings," "when the news reached us shortly thereafter, that on August 28, 1933, the Slavick Jewelry Co. of Los Angeles, had held a one-day sale which so far surpassed all previous records as to make them look like the efforts of amateurs. The Slavick concern set a mark that astonished the entire silverware industry. They sold $44,000 worth of silver in one day, all of one brand, one pattern...