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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...processes in any instance. The courts remained open and functioned in a normal way. Troops were sent to Sullivan and Vigo counties as a symbol of the authority of the State and its determination to preserve order. Over a period of time there was a progressive reduction of the number of troops until finally we had only one squad on duty, although martial law technically was continued...
...Saito was played up by the Japanese press as a symbol of U. S. friendship and understanding. What sympathy the U. S. had for China was minimized as a vague feeling for the underdog; few contemplated the possibility that the U.S. might one day become exasperated over the increasing number of incidents involving U.S. property and nationals...
Last fortnight Columnist Broun advertised for a job (TIME, July 31), thereby publicly setting himself up as the No. 1 example of an oldtime newspaperman whose career has followed the conventional graph (reporter to critic to columnist) and who now needs work. There are thousands like him, for the number of U. S. daily newspapers had decreased by 211 in a decade. Time was when a good man could always get a job and the itinerant newspaperman was one of the most colorful figures in the land. He was hard-drinking, amorous, industrious when sober, able whether sober or drunk...
With his own utility system Willkie set out to do a number of things that the New Deal advocated. To widen the use of electricity one of his first acts was to hire 500 salesmen to sell electrical devices. C. & S. began to extend its lines into rural areas; as electric consumption increased, it began to lower its rates, inviting more consumption. When Willkie took over in 1933, Commonwealth & Southern's average domestic rate per kilowatt hour was 6?. Today...
...this surplus is no comfort to Chairman Crowley. He wrote an indictment of the present state of the U. S. banking business: for 75 years the ratio of bank capital to assets and to deposits has declined. Now the number of banker-owned dollars which protect the public's deposit dollars is at a new low-about...