Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here lives Governor Roosevelt's elderly mother. Both women take very good care of the Governor when he comes down from Albany for weekends to live the life of a squire of Hyde Park. He looks after the cattle whose original strain was superintended by his father half a century ago. He sees that the roof of the Episcopalian Church does not leak. He makes sure that all goes well in the brick public school erected by his father. He has new trees planted out, carefully oversees his own tilled acres...
...Hoover portrait, of course, attracted most attention. Erased from the President's face were lines of strain and worry. Painter de Laszlo showed him in majestic mood, narrowed slightly by a be coming shadow, equipped with the dignity which Presidents so frequently require. His hands were white and soft upon his lap. On Mrs. Hoover's kind face matronly warmth was mingled with, but did not in fringe upon, a hauteur fitting for her station. Other faces on the walls ? solemn Andrew William Mellon, wise Elihu Root, martial John Joseph Pershing, temperate Frank Billings Kellogg?made it apparent that...
...should not escape. Because there was no marriage contract stating the exact financial rights of the wife, Mme Coty claimed half of M. Coty's fortune at the time of her divorce. Last week Perfumer Coty bitterly protested that his business would not be able to stand the strain of obeying the court's order...
...drain on U. S. gold. After England suspended gold payments (Sept. 21), the U. S. lost $730,000,000 in six weeks, heaviest gold movement in history. Meanwhile U. S. citizens, alarmed at the spectacle of vanishing gold and failing banks, began to hoard, putting a severe and needless strain on the banking structure. When National Credit Corp. was announced (Oct. 7), foreign bankers misunderstood its purpose, sold dollars so heavily that the pressure bore the appearance of an attack...
...difference between imports and exports but the actual reserve. Column 2 shows the Federal Reserve Ratio of gold reserves to notes and deposits. Column 3 shows, in millions of dollars, the amount of Federal Reserve notes in circulation. This figure is far from where it was before the strain, but the season is normally one of more money in circulation...