Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunt boys with a pint of whiskey on the hip. What's the use of keeping Capone in Atlanta? What's the use of hunting Insull in Greece?" At 5 p. m., worn to a frazzle, he fairly begged: "It's time someone should move a recess." Montana's Wheeler obliged, but the motion was lost. During a brief pause in the filibuster the First Deficiency bill was slipped through...
...Tokyo the Japanese Diet & House of Peers will soon meet, after New Year's recess, to face the largest public debt in Japanese history and to make it still larger by authorizing loans stupendous enough to pay the Army & Navy's bills and balance the budget on paper...
Work on the album has been going forward steadily since the Christmas recess, and the members of the committee have been assigned to the different work as follows: E. H. Hickey '33, photographs; H. H. Bissell '33, articles; J. J. Ryan '33, life-blanks; Karl Adams, Jr. '33, publicity and circulation...
...Passed a bill to pay Mexico a $30.000 indemnity for the fatal shooting of two Mexican youths by Oklahoma deputy sheriffs last year; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Recessed for three days over Christmas after Speaker Garner failed to muster a quorum. Members failing to return after the recess were threatened with arrest by the House Sergeant-at-Arms...
...fifth and final concert of the fall season, the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will play this evening in the Fairhaven. High School at New Bedford. This concert is usually planned for the spring, but because of the postponement of the Christmas trip until the April recess, it was decided to give the New Bedford performance before Christmas...