Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Failure of Richard Whitney's brokerage house on Tuesday upset the New York Stock Exchange immediately, although but slightly, and filled the nation with probably unnecessary fears as to the financial condition of Wall Street. Yet the bankruptcy of such a prominent firm, the business of which was mostly concerned with banks and other respectable institutions, has significance. To the conservatives it must mean the crashing of the old and established foundations, the giving way to the new order. For the S.E.C. it is a bolster to their insistence upon strict regulation of national securities and exchange members...
...were snapped up. San Antonio's gasping public tried not to believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted, but harassed Mayor Charles Kennon Quin of San Antonio fulminated: "I always make it a rule not to engage in a fumigation contest with a skunk...
...busting protege, Solicitor General-designee Robert Houghwout Jackson, spoke to Business in more conciliatory terms than usual: "The business man is not easily interested in distant reforms if he is showing losses from quarter to quarter. But the Government, whose first duty is to preserve the future of the nation, has to try to live, not from quarter to quarter, not even from decade to decade, but actually from generation to generation...
...materials which might yield a bigger profit today from more intense exploitation may be the very natural resources which the nation wants to conserve to give a break to the next generation so that there may be profits tomorrow...
...other stores. But all three stores had equal standing in the Herald Tribune list. Before Red Star Over China had become a favorite in small shops throughout the U. S., it was among the leaders at R. H. Macy's in Manhattan (which alone sells 5% of the nation's books), at the Old Corner in Boston (which sells 1%) and at Kroch's. While the best-seller lists give a picture of the relative popularity of new books in different parts of the country, they give no indication of any book's total...