Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even when the slightest bit of improvement is proclaimed, the market always seems to respond with lower quotations." While Democratic Executive Chairman Jouett Shouse was loudly jeering Chairman Fess's latest "discovery," less partisan Wall Street traders explained that one good reason why the stockmarket did not respond to Republican statements of business improvements was because the Administration's predictions, from President Hoover's down to Secretary of Labor Davis', for a turn in the economic tide, had all failed to come true...
...defendants must respond to the suit...
Charles E. Belt, clerk, was the first man to respond. He leaped to the door. When he couldn't open it, he smashed his fist through the glass. He gasped at what he saw through the tinkling gash. Almost against the door lay the president, bloody, limp, dead. In a corner the vice president was clutching his side, moaning as in an agonizing contortion as he attempted to rise to his feet. The heavy rug was crumpled, a chair was overturned, bullets had ripped the mahogany desk...
...political rather than fiscal importance was last week's tax news at the White House and the Treasury. Congress, at President Hoover's order, cut the normal income tax rate by 1% for 1929 to bolster business. Business did not respond to the cut. Federal receipts ran down hill. Last week Treasury officials compiled figures, frankly told Pressmen that they were quite helpless about a continuation of the 1% reduction for 1930 incomes. For the first 50 days of this fiscal year, U. S. revenue had fallen off $64,261,211 compared with last year, while expenditures...
...Because Shepherd Dog Pat refused to answer when the President, his master, called, but would respond to the call of a White House policeman, Secretary Lawrence Richey last week gave orders that no policeman...