Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, Franklin Roosevelt sent the nomination of Ernest G. Draper, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to replace Joseph A. Broderick who resigned last October...
...basis for future legislation, the President sent Congress the National Resources Committee's 120,000-word report on a long-range plan recommending Federal, State and municipal expenditure of $2,100,000,000 over the next six years for flood control, irrigation and navigation improvement all over the U. S. Four days later, the President followed up the committee's report with a message of his own, calling for a comprehensive study of developing and preserving U. S. forests...
...gallon, which should bring in $25,000,000 a year, slapped import duties on pork and pork products which should bring in $5,000,000 more. Thereupon, after defeating one more woebegone attempt to slip the third basket back into the bill, the House passed it 293 to 97, sent it to the Senate...
...proletarian New York News, was what cafe society thought about the Whitney crash last week. Cafeteria society was shocked, too, and downtown they were taking it harder than any other financial scandal of the century. True, Joseph Wright Harriman and Bernard K. Marcus had misapplied bank funds and been sent to jail. Charley Mitchell was penalized for tax deficiencies and Al Wiggin had paid off stockholders to stop their suits. There was old Sam Insull, too, although Wall Street is never very surprised at the shenanigans of a Chicagoan. But Dick Whitney was a Morgan broker. He was the President...
...which do business with brokers and banks. First report was due on Feb. 15. With his company virtually insolvent. Dick Whitney asked for an extension of time. This naturally piqued the Exchange's curiosity. When the Whitney report arrived, the Exchange scrutinized it carefully and immediately sent its own accountant over to the Whitney offices to verify the figures. What made the Exchange so alert it would not reveal last week, but there was good reason to suppose that some of the Governors already suspected Whitney irregularities.* In November Governor Edward Henry Harriman Simmons had had difficulty getting Whitney...