Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...larger story: that following the stockmarket crash of 1929 Harriman had made an attempt to maintain the price of his bank's stock at about $1,350 a share (1929 earnings were $55 a share and later earnings declined). He actually succeeded in maintaining the price in that neighborhood until April 1932. At that time the Harriman National took over Liberty National Bank (founded in 1923 by William C. ["Bull"] Durant) paying one share of its own stock for 180 shares of the Liberty. About that time, too, the U. S. Attorney began investigation, fruit of which...
...materialism. To the man who was too busy or too lazy to follow the newspapers in 1932, "The American Scene" will appear trenchant and indispensable. The well informed man will find in it perhaps three hours of pleasant reminiscence and then recommend it for the attention of the neighborhood high school teacher of current events...
Into Seattle's ten-story County-City Building one night last week swarmed some 3,000 hungry, ragged men, women & children. For months they had been living on food from county commissaries. Now the Legislature had decreed that they should get it from neighborhood grocers with requisitions issued by a State Relief Commission. To the desperate 3,000 this meant a 40% cut in their food supply, a pride-hurting investigation of their need. Mayor John Francis Dore told police to let them alone. Grateful, the demonstrators furnished their own police, who shoved through the mob crying: "Keep moving...
...from the faculty for the purpose of alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In short, it does not conform to Mr. Robart's idea of a university committee, and faculty members of Harvard would do well to further destroy Mr. Robart's rather mistaken conception by contributing to the neighborhood relief fund...
...youngest child in a family is usually the smartest, and the children of elderly parents are usually smarter than other neighborhood children, decided Dr. Richard Leos Jenkins, Chicago juvenile researcher after looking over records of 7,000 Sioux City, Iowa children. (Dr. Minnie L. Steckel gathered the records.) Havelock Ellis thinks that late generating parents do their offspring good. Dr. Jenkins, however, reasons that more money and experience in bringing up children enable such parents to take better care of late comers...