Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These things, and the fact that, economist or no, he has little technical knowledge of finance, moved Wall Street to try to head off his appointment, may move some Senators to oppose the confirmation of his appointment. The fact that he was named to succeed Chairman Bill Douglas on SEC does not mean that he will automatically become its chairman. Legally, SEC elects its own chairman. How much opposition to his confirmation develops may depend on whether assurance is quietly given to the Senate that SEC will elect as chairman some one else, such as Commissioner Jerome Frank...
...Strong Men. England's biggest fear is that London will be crippled by a sudden stroke from the sky. Recently Londoners have taken to rushing to their windows whenever airplanes drone overhead, as they used to when planes were a novelty. In Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street and in Whitehall, this psychosis has taken the form of a question: Who will govern Britain if we are blown to Blarney? The Government's first answer to it was to divide all Britain into twelve administrative sections,* each of which would operate as an independent country...
...Meanwhile Chinese terrorism continued. In Shanghai, fortnight ago, the puppet secretary of the city's Japanese-controlled Police Bureau, Dr. Hsi Shih-tai, was assassinated as he walked in the street with his wife. This was the 17th political murder in Shanghai since January 1. In Tientsin the Chinese manager of the Japanese-owned Federal Reserve Bank was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. In Kaifeng, Chinese mercenary troops hired by the Japanese mutinied and murdered four puppet officials. All Japanese reports said: "Apparently something happened in Kaifeng...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday, from four to six o'clock. This will be the last Sunday this year on which President and Mrs. Conant will be at home to students...
This year "Copey" has not carried out his annual custom of giving a Christmas reading to the Freshman Class, reading on Christmas Eve at the President's house, or spending ten Wednesday evenings with a few Yardlings at his Concord Street apartment, because of his doctor's orders that he should not have too many definite engagements. He will, however, give a Bible reading on May 4 in the upper common room of the Union...