Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least touch of snappishness, it is major news. Last week, reporters lost no time in guessing that Franklin Roosevelt had finally stopped trying to conceal his serious concern about Depression. Right or wrong, the reporters' guess was reasonable. The Gainesville speech had touched off a selling wave that sent the stock market to new lows. Other business indices showed few signs of improvement...
...display of pique occurred last week on the first morning of a week-long holiday. Next day in somewhat better humor the President settled down to the tasks of an unusually trying week end. The railroad committee's report arrived and the President studied it at length. He sent to Congress, with a recommendation that it be given "most careful consideration," Hungary's proposal, made last February, to pay off its $1,685,000 Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed a plan proposed...
...salmon piled on the decks of four fishing vessels, that at the present rate Alaska's salmon would not last five years. The State Department, whose agreements with Great Britain and Japan settled the similar dispute over Bering Sea seal fishing in the '80s, sent a note to Japan affirming that salmon spawned in the U. S. and protected by the Bureau of Fisheries were U. S. property, waited for an answer. Last week it came in satisfactory form. In what amounted to a complete capitulation, Japan promised to suspend her "survey," issue no licenses for salmon fishing...
...reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders Bankhead and Rayburn, whose orders from the White House might have read: "Take the Rankin Bill; maybe it will head off Gasque." With but one loud NO the bill was passed by the House, swallowed by the Administration and sent to the Senate after Congressman Griswold assured his colleagues: "When you get the rate down to 10% the line of demarcation between the service-connected and the non-service-connected cases is very small...
...Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta, Mr. Hoover had moved on to Berlin. At his hotel, sharp-eyed Gestapo (secret police) agents pounced upon a suspicious-looking package addressed to Mr. Hoover. They ripped it open, to their surprise found only a picture of the late Tsarina Alexandra of Russia sent by an admiring White Russian...