Word: recession
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Judge served by a recess appointment until the Senate should approve his nomination?the Senate of which Hiram Johnson is a member. One of Senator Johnson's characteristics is that his memory is long and his forgiveness is short. The Senate Judiciary Committee reported favorably on Judge McCamant, but on the floor of the Senate Mr. Johnson was eloquent. The result was that the nomination was referred back to the Committee. And before the Committee the Judge last week appeared...
...paint the Polish fiscal situation in glowing colors. German correspondents, jealous of the tide of U. S. investments which they imagined this would turn in the direction of Poland, flayed Professor Kemmerer for "dashing over to report on Poland's finances, while his classes are taking their Christmas recess." Historians recalled that the Poles have been "pulling through" under adversity for generations. The anciently independent state known as "Poland" was twice partitioned among Prussia, Russia and Austria -at the end of the 18th Century and at the beginning of the 19th. In 1914 only "Austrian Poland" was autonomous. During...
...Original Situation. During the holiday recess of Parliament two schemes for the financial rehabilitation of France lay before the Finance Committee of the Chamber (TIME...
...next morning the Chamber assembled, after its recess, and amid thunderous applause re-elected M. Herriot its President. He received 300 votes out of a Chamber of 324. Nobody thought he could put his Cartel finance program through by any such majority; but M. Briand's prestige slumped. It was rumored that a Herriot-Caillaux Cabinet would replace the Briand-Doumer partnership, Doumer to vanish, Briand to return as Foreign Minister...
...Chamber reassembled following the Christmas recess, a little knot of deputies, extremely ill at ease, was observed among the superconfident Fascists who make up Premier Mussolini's overwhelming majority...