Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major R. R. Wright is a really remarkable individual for more reasons than you had space to tell in your excellent report of the National Negro Bankers' Association convention (TIME, July 17, p. 60). After four score restless years most men are ready to lay down their arms and leave the fighting to younger men with stronger bodies. But the Major is just beginning, and there is no telling when he will stop...
April began with a report that Moscow was suspicious, and ended with the news that Britain was cautious...
...less obvious which side Generalissimo Franco, umpire of the showdown, would favor. It would suit the purposes of the old-time generals to have the monarchy restored; the Falangists are against restoration. Some indication that the Generalissimo, once a stanch Monarchist, was favoring restoration came in the report that the Duke of Maura, now living in Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso fortnight ago held a "conference" of Spanish Monarchists at Lausanne, Switzerland. It has long been thought that in case of a restoration Alfonso's 26-year-old son, Prince...
...from Spain has been written from afar, contributed by correspondents who 1) could not get in, 2) could not find out much if they did, 3) did not like what they found out. Last week Carey Longmire, open-eyed correspondent of the Paris New York Herald, turned in a report of a real trip through Spain. Having no truck with the official and political life, Correspondent Longmire wandered through the towns noting the price of eggs, the looks of posters, the crowds at bullfights, jokes, songs and the length of women's bathing suits, came back with a common...
...pleasant picture of dollars on relief was the annual report last fortnight of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Leo T. Crowley. FDIC's own figures looked good enough at first glance. In five years the corporation has had to pay out $21,000,000 to cover expenses and to make good average losses of 16% of the deposits of 252 insured banks that closed or were taken over. Meantime FDIC has taken in $167,400,000 ($124,200,000 of it from ½ of 1% assessments on bank deposits, $43,200,000 from its investments and profits). Result: FDIC...