Word: recession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second week's hearing at Albany popped into the open one new fact?the name of Betty Compton, musicomedienne, as the "unknown person" to whom Mayor Walker had given $7,000. During a recess Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger asked if it were...
...Lloyd Lomax of Foster & Kleiser Billboard Advertising Corp. Director Lomax was in a San Francisco court serving as juryman in the $1,800,000 suit of its onetime Board Chairman L. E. W. Pioda against Golden State Milk Products Co. Judge Walter Perry Johnston announced he would grant a recess while Juror Lomax traveled 50 mi. to Willow Glen on an important mission. Several hours later Juror Lomax returned, climbed wearily into the jury box, told interested colleagues that hereafter Willow Glen's schoolchildren could look at an innocuous poster of a youth and maiden in scanty one-piece...
...Thoroughly displeased would be President Hoover to see Congress take a recess over the national conventions with its legislative job unfinished. Senators calling at the White House departed with the firm idea that the session must continue until the tax and economy bills are enacted. Practically abandoned was the hope that Congress could shut up shop by June 11 and go larking to the party assemblies in Chicago...
After a two-week recess to allow Counsel William A. Gray and his investigators to prowl around Wall Street for more data, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed hearings on the buying & selling practices of U. S. stock exchanges. Having heard a lot about post-crash short-selling (TIME, April 25. et seq.), the Committee now went back to the great pre-crash bull pools...
...When a political idealist named Mouser from Ohio proposed that Congressmen strike their idle relatives from the clerk hire payroll, he was howled down (8840-40) by a membership addicted to nepotism. So excited became the sessions that members loudly complained of "ragged nerves," begged for a recess...