Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With one of those gestures which he loves and executes so well, Franklin Roosevelt last week assembled 23 Southerners in Washington and sent them a message which made Page 1 news throughout the South...
...Valencia, with a pre-War population of 350,000 now swollen by refugees to an estimated 1,000,000, children were forbidden the frequently bombed beaches. A public subscription was started to send children inland to safe colonies. Twenty-five ambulances sent from abroad reached Valencia. Belgian Non-intervention Observer Paul Heemans was wounded in an air attack...
...group turns so jaundiced an eye on radio as the American Federation of Musicians. Large scale dispenser of music, relatively small-scale employer of musicians, the industry looks to organized musicmakers like a mechanized monster which sent battalions into unemployment. Three years ago the Federation's New York Local 802 attacked dance-band programs piped into the studios from outside and then broadcast. They argued that musicians on such programs were doing two jobs for the price of one, demanded a fee ($3 per man per broadcast on network stations, less on local stations) to be paid for remote...
Last week it became apparent that United was still looking for a way out. To its stockholders. President George H. Howard sent a letter proposing to write off as market losses $434,130,478 of its $580,049,445 book assets. Announced purpose: to permit the resumption of dividends on United's preferred stock based on the portfolio as revalued by the state of the market last December 31. But President Howard admitted that if stock-holders agreed, the way would then be cleared for sale of enough of United's holdings to reduce its control...
...soon ran him off. Why, then, did so many of the miners join Pancho Villa? Why did a fault-finding stockholder in the U. S. protest that there were too many sons, sons-in-law, nephews and brothers-in-law on the payroll? Why did a greenhorn mining engineer, sent to Mexico by the board of directors, report that the mines could produce more than they...