Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprecedented situation of being without a Speaker, the House was called to order by Clerk South Trimble less than twelve hours after Joe Byrns had breathed his last. By a plan which Democratic leaders had agreed on few minutes before, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor promptly rose, declared: "With no disrespect to our beloved Speaker who has left us, it becomes necessary, in order that the House may function and the machinery of government may not stop, that the House proceed to the election of a Speaker." On Chairman O'Connor's motion, a subdued...
Recently the whole situation rose again to its embarrassing climax; Boston University duplicated the action of the Pacific Coast University, and once again Harvard had to declare that it would welcome no women delegates at its gala 300th celebration next fall...
...well that the plan is for the forthcoming productions to be treated with like respect. The Red Mill may seem like an old, old story. But it will send audiences away singing Because You're You, In Old New York, The Isle of Our Dreams. In The Rose of Algeria there will be Ask Her While the Band Is Playing; in Sweethearts, Pretty as a Picture and the title waltz...
...Academy of Natural Sciences held a meeting last week to discuss ways & means of raising money, invited some of the city's best brains and fattest purses. Also present were Princeton's patriarchal Zoologist Edwin Grant Conklin and Columbia's learned Paleontologist William King Gregory. Up rose Lawyer Henry Sturgis Drinker, an Academy trustee...
...yields so low. The previous high was around 1900, when high-grade issues sold to yield something less than 4%. At that time the best opinion was that low interest rates would continue for the first two decades of the 20th Century. The experts were dead wrong. Interest rates rose and bond prices fell almost without interruption until the post-War depression. Through most of the 1920's bonds climbed steadily, then started to fall again when money tightened during the last purple days of the stockmarket boom. The present rise dates from 1932, bonds as usual leading actual...