Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appointed a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank was Owen D. Young, who was dropped last December after 13 years' service when the Federal Reserve Board refused to reappoint men who had sat on Reserve directorates for more than six years. Mr. Young's return to Reserve service not only marked a reversal of a much-criticized policy: it also provided the Board with a suitable figure to act as chairman of the New York Reserve Bank. Last winter Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles ap-Brothers and Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp...
...Benton & Bowles's smartest stunts was to cash in on 1933 Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel, Inc. (frankfurters). Tired of writing about food, food, food, B. & B. called up 200 women in Manhattan, found only seven in favor of the 18th Amendment. Promptly they spread copy predicting return of beer and plugging its time-honored connection with spiced meats. Kernel of the campaign was Gobel's offer to donate a part of each sale to some worthy anti-Prohibition organization. Gobel's sausage sales jumped from 21,000 Ib. per week...
...Orleans, U. S. deputy marshals arrested Albert Broel, 46, his friend and fellow Frog-Fancier Sylvester Schutt, charged them with advertising that their frogs would lay 25,000 eggs a year, that in 13 years a brace would return a profit...
...grandfather's house at 9, he became a ragpicker, a scullery boy, a sailor, bitterly described Old Russia in short stories, novels (The Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post from Nikolai Lenin which he abandoned shortly to nurse his failing health in Capri. Induced to return in 1928, he was feted as the literary patriarch of the Revolution...
...breach between Austrian Chancellor von Schuschnigg and Vice Chancellor von Starhemberg was widened early in May when the vice chancellor refused to (1 agree to the return of the Habsburg heir, 2 support the Chancellor's move to effect an Austro-German union, 3 support a treaty of mutual assistance with Italy, 4 disband the Heimwehr, 5 resign his office...