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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only now that people are beginning to understand the Moratorium which was sprung on an unwitting public a few months ago. At that time all the world thought that President Hoover had by a stroke of genius ended the Depression. The word Moratorium was a magic spell on the lips of everyone. Prosperity was soon mysteriously to return, although no one had any idea how it was going to be brought about...
President Hoover has seen and suffered too many false starts toward recovery. Therefore last week he eschewed all predictions, all speculations as to whether the things that now made him happy marked a definite turn in the economic tide or not. It was, at least, a breathing spell. What helped to add to the President's sense of happy relief was the good progress being made by his National Credit Corp. and public response to his nation-wide campaign for Unemployment Relief funds, locally collected and expended. To the San Francisco community chest drive the President sent his check...
...suggestion is the following, based on a familiar type, the "spell-it out type...
...Besides their military titles, Col. William Franklin Knox and Col. Guy T. Visk-niskki have three things in common: Both served in the Spanish-American War, both became high-ranking Hearstmen, both spell "economy" in large capitals. Last week Col. Viskniskki resigned as general manager of Star Co., technical publishers of Hearst's New York American and Journal, to become business manager of Col. Knox's newly purchased Chicago Daily News. In the War, Col. Viskniskki was for a time officer in charge of The Stars & Stripes, A. E. F. newspaper...
...accurate predictions I have made the last two days I feel positive that the feeling I have had throughout the World Series--namely, that the Cardinals would win--will come true. Burleigh Grimes should pitch a 3 to 1 victory over Earnshaw today, thus breaking the American League spell...