Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Completed action on House amendments and sent to the President for signing the Frazier-Lemke Bill extending the Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act of 1935 for two more years...
Since the Hoover Moratorium ended in 1932, the U. S. State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000. Last week a defaulter answered. Hungary announced that on Dec. 15 it would make a payment of $9,828.16, first by a defaulting nation* since Great Britain ceased its "token" payments in 1933. Hungary's payment, also a token, amounted to 22.8? per dollar on the semiannual payment...
Some of the criticism has been caused by the fact that insurance companies took advantage of the 1933 bank moratorium to declare a moratorium of their own (on demands for cash). Of course, the insurance moratorium was theoretically imposed by State insurance superintendents but the legal grounds were so shaky that not a few policyholders got their cash in full by merely threatening...
...George Norris. They resolved against President Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan, rejected the Child Labor Amendment by 35-to-7. Outside of an unemployment compensation bill, they showed small concern for Labor and the masses-small political potatoes in agricultural Nebraska. But they extended the State mortgage moratorium law for two more years, kept in step with the New Deal march toward regulated business. Passed were bills laying down price-fixing "fair trade" rules, creating an NRA-like code for automobile dealers, giving the State Railway Commission jurisdiction over trucking, providing State regulation of itinerant merchants and gasoline transporters...
...cities about the South Pole. It was during a lull in this tour that Hero Byrd again thought of peace. He publicly promised last summer to "start my work for international amity." Three months ago he wrote a letter to Nicholas Murray Butler urging a six months' "moratorium" on war, soon thereafter accepting Mrs. Roosevelt's invitation to open the No Foreign War Crusade from the White House...