Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigaret after cigaret in his long holder, the President settled down to await the Congressional pleasure. Forty-eight hours later that pleasure was to adjourn, after giving him more social legislation than he had asked for. The railway labor bill he might approve; Huey Long's farm mortgage moratorium bill he would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that...
...Banking Act-1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana's Long stood on the sidelines waiting for a chance to rush in with a bill for farm mortgage moratoriums. Next day was Sunday, with nothing to do but pack up. Monday the Senators continued to jockey each other with filibusters until, at 11:45 p.m., the housing bill, railway bill, farm mortgage moratorium bill had passed both Houses. Then, at last, the 73rd Congress went home. Last Acts. According...
...Schacht had boldly asked for a complete moratorium. He got one for six months, and considerable savings afterwards. He had tried desperately but failed dismally to bring the Dawes and Young plan loans into the haggle...
...oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural...
...Trust Co. and $148,000,000 Guardian Trust Co. Ferdinand Pecora's staff blamed: 1) mismanagement; 2) a lax-Ohio Banking Department; 3) evasions of the spirit of the law. The investigators declared that Guardian Trust was "hopelessly insolvent" a year before it was closed by the banking moratorium, never to reopen, that it "has never published a statement of condition which has shown the true facts." Last month Joseph R. Nutt, onetime National Republican treasurer and Union Trust's onetime chairman, was indicted along with the bank's president and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen...