Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Economic Conference]. I say without hesitation that before many months have passed the United States authorities will be anxious to see their dollar as stable as our own currency. . . . If the [NRA] experiment fails it means another period of depression in the United States and that cannot occur without hav ing its effect on us." Same night in London the Roosevelt experiment was sardonically described by Sir Josiah Stamp, rotund Board Chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a Director of the Bank of England and a leading Empire economist often consulted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "They...
This problem may have suggested the plot of Footlight Parade, about a dunce director who has a hard time thinking up new routines, finds that his rival promptly steals them. The novelty in the backstage romance in Footlight Parade consists in having it occur not in the wings of a theatre hut in a cinema studio where James Cagney is the dance director, Joan Blondell his affectionate secretary, Ruby Keeler his star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years...
...case, however, of those banks which have been closed and money new is needed to release deposits, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will lend actual cash and the banks in turn will notify depositors that half of their money is going to be available to them. This probably will not occur until after the first of the year, though a determined effort is going to be made to release as much as possible in the mean time...
...useless to temporize or quibble; Austria must remain outside Germany or there will be a European conflict-and what a conflict!-within a short time. . . . Will the Nazis take Salzburg by force? And if this coup takes place, however it may happen, will Europe let it occur without acting?" In Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss, like a chick trying to round up a brood of flustered hens, was trying desperately to get together a political consolidation to fight Naziism. President Wilhelm Miklas had shown him last week the Socialist petition signed by 1,250,000 Austrians, nearly one-third...
...third career. (His second had been an Assistant Secretary of War.) Traveled, informed, scholarly, artistic, he gave the Sun his own peculiar tart philosophy. To people who objected to the things he printed, Dana retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report."' Passionately fond of a good story, he demanded that his reporters write interestingly. Life to him was no mere procession of elections, legislatures, murders. It was "a new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President...