Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill's chief provisions were simple and direct: The U. S. Government would supply all the cash necessary for farmers to pay off their mortgages or to buy back their farms from which they have been dispossessed. In return the Government would take from the farmers new mortgages bearing 1½% interest amortized over 47 years. These new mortgages would be used as security for a Federal bond issue bearing 1½% interest. The bonds would be offered to the public but since the public would probably not buy them, the Federal Reserve would be ordered to take them...
Germany's future, as seen by a businessman: bankruptcy within a year; inflation; more unemployment and starvation; a Germany of "marvelous buildings, wonderful roads, a great army and-nothing to eat"; the collapse of the Nazi regime; an Army dictatorship; the return of the Hohenzollerns...
...Lord Rector. Before Scotland's rowdiest undergraduates, who interrupted his speech by pelting him with paper bags filled with flour, with colored streamers, beans and peppermints, he imperturbably declared: "Unless the people of Europe discard this narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism there will be a return to the Dark Ages. The lust for expansion is not quite dead, but the glory of conquest is departing. Its gains are Dead Sea fruit, its legacy bitter memories alone...
...husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters he had written her. Having paid Frieda Hempel her annuity for seven years, he halted last December, asserting Singer Hempel injured his "peace, quiet, and happiness" by "accosting" him in "public places...
...overtime. The rank & file began demanding the west coast scale. When the Union failed to get it after the old wage agreement expired last winter, seamen on the 5. 5. California struck in protest in San Pedro, Calif. Harbor (TIME, March 16). Persuaded by Secretary of Labor Perkins to return to work, they took the ship back to Manhattan, where they were promptly fired, branded as "mutineers." Under one Joseph Curran, the dissatisfied element brewed a general east coast seamen's strike. The conservative Union heads, who had meantime arranged an agreement with shipowners for an east coast...