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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marietta good Democrats everywhere marched to the primary polls to pick delegates to cast Ohio's 52 pivotal votes in next month's national convention. No native son of theirs had ever got closer to the White House than James Middletn Cox in 1920, who missed it by seven million votes. But now there was a distinct chance that the "Mother of Presidents ? would not only give the Democratic party another nominee but also put him, the first of his kind, into the Presidency...
...John Maynard Keynes broadcasting advice to spend rather than save cut the sale of National Saving Certificates in Great Britain from 250,000 per day to 157,000. In this emergency B. B. C. soon afterward put Sir Josiah Stamp on the air and his stirring appeal? A Thousand Million Saving Certificates! ?boosted sales so much that three days later 450,000 were sold and on the fourth day 500,000?a record...
Finally the Soviet Government, for the first time in two years, entered the foreign wheat market as a heavy buyer. By this time last year 85 million bushels of Soviet wheat had been sold or dumped on the world market. This year Russia is not only eating her wheat and permitting her peasants to drive hard bargains for it, but has purchased in the last fortnight three million bushels from Canada for delivery in foreign bottoms to the Soviet Far East port of Vladivostok...
...Long, now Louisiana's loud Senator (TIME, May 16 et ante) contributed: "I believe that this was one of the buildings for whose construction I was charged with the larceny of about a million dollars. As a matter of fact, the architect's estimate kept going up and I had to 'take' about two millions."- He promised ex officio that "there is not going to be anything but friendly relations between the medical schools of Tulane and L. S. U. . . . The Governor . . . sits on the boards of both institutions...
...cruisers and minesweepers, he gave $1,000,000 to the 15,000 men on his payroll. Asked if he did it to prevent labor troubles, he replied, "Hell, no! I gave it to the boys because they earned it. ... You can't buy the loyalty of labor with a million times a million...