Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statesman Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious plan to have next month's Pan-American Conference in Lima put as much starch into Democracy as Japanese armies and Munich have put into Autocracy. Last week the State Department announced the members of the U. S. delegation to Lima, which will be headed by Secretary of State Hull...
...elected Pensioneer Sheridan Downey to the Senate, did not want $30 Every Thursday for its old folks at the cost of a serious monetary experiment, returned a 100,000 majority against it. Oregon rejected a "citizens' retirement annuity plan" which would have paid up to $100 a month, but instructed its Legislature to memorialize Congress on behalf of the Townsend Plan. Nebraskans refused to license slot machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present $45-a-month pensions which...
...bonds. Rogers points out that what is needed in a budget policy is a long-run rather than a short-run balance, and that after all "a year is a pretty arbitrary accounting period . . . In fact . . . it might be almost as rational to demand that the balance appear each month." The author concludes by warning that if no solution to these afflictions is forthcoming that capitalism is doomed. He presents his own "home remedies" for these evils necessarily brief and superficial, but which point out a possible means of escape from increasingly serious economic dislocations...
...Brady-husband of Actress Grace George, father of Actress Alice Brady-last week announced the formation of a permanent Manhattan stock company reminiscent of the age of Frohman, Daly, Wallack. Plays new & old will be presented each season at intervals of six weeks. First play, opening late this month: G. B. Shaw's You Never Can Tell...
...Huge inventories of refined products last month forced widespread crude oil price cuts...