Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former would life the burden of senatorial confirmation, the latter retains this, the "good old way" of patronage appointments. Both bills would be an improvement over the situation existing up until July, 1936, but neither would equal the sweeping reform provided by the president's executive order of that month...
...election to determine who has the majority will be held as soon as possible, and the Commission's decision will be handed down within the month. The other departments in which the "inside" union claims a majority are the caretakers, the H. A. A., the printers and binders, the laboratory workers, the maintenance men, and the engineers exclusive of Medical School power-house workers...
When Richard Whitney, onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended from the Exchange last month for insolvency and theft of customers' securities, his older brother, Morgan Partner George Whitney, was in Florida on vacation. Wall Street took this as prima-facie evidence that George Whitney knew nothing of the pending debacle. Last week this view was considerably modified...
...base (TIME. March 29, 1937). Almost immediately afterward came the collapse of the British commodity boom, and rubber consumption presently slumped about 25%. In the U. S., world's biggest rubber buyer, rubber consumption dropped as much as 8,000 tons per month and the price to 14? a lb. Last December, therefore, the I. R. R. C. again met in London, cut the rubber quota for the first quarter of 1938 to 70% of the base...
...Scotland in 1768, the Britannica came under U. S. ownership 35 years ago, barely squeezed through its 12th, 13th and 14th editions, was often rescued by the late Julius Rosenwald when he headed Sears, Roebuck. For its 14th edition, it needed $2,500,000 to keep going. This month veteran Editor Franklin Henry Hooper resigns after 40 years with the Britannica, turning over the reins to aggressive Walter Yust, associate editor and ex-newspaperman. Now moving from its Manhattan offices to luxurious new quarters in Chicago's Civic Opera Building, the staff is working on the encyclop...