Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House moratorium was declared on place-seeking. While it lasted, Democratic Senators and Representatives had to be on their best behavior-and in the name of emergency the President could continue this moratorium until he got all he wanted from Congress...
...Except for major jobs the White House declared a moratorium on patronage until after the banking crisis...
After a four-day moratorium, the doors of Cuban banks opened slightly. Only currency deposits were accepted; withdrawals were limited until March 26 to 10% of commercial and savings accounts. Except for cinemas, business withstood the bank holiday reasonably well. Cinema houses closed in towns throughout the provinces due to the fact that managers had not only a cash shortage to contend with but bombs thrown by enemies of the Machado administration...
...that offered credit. Nearly everywhere merchants continued giving credit to customers with charge accounts and many "cash" stores broke their rules to give credit to regular customers. R. H. Macy in Manhattan, largest U. S. department store, did an 80% business on Monday, the second business day of the moratorium in New York. Speakeasies everywhere were the most liberal in extending credit...
...they learned that both banks had refused the Ford offer, changed their minds, were about to reorganize and carry on under new Federal and State emergency legislation. Delay in adopting the latter was partly traceable to antagonism between Detroit and out-state bankers, who were not consulted when the moratorium was proclaimed and whose reserves are tied up in Detroit banks. Dark rumors also circulated of a struggle for power between Ford, General Motors, Chrysler. Meanwhile General Motors, flinging defiance in the face of moratoria. announced a new Chevrolet "standard" six slightly smaller than the present six. to sell, they...