Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garner and his field marshal, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, are hopeful of achieving some concrete results when the tax bill comes before Congress. For John Garner believes in ordinary U. S. business -Wall Street excepted. If the Garner bloc can repeal taxes that business objects to, it will...
...party wrecked," he says, "than to see my country ruined." Garner has appreciated property ever since he ran away from a home which had little, became a lawyer, married an heiress (Ettie Rheiner, his secretary ever since). Demons to him, as a Texas millionaire, are the multimillionaires of Wall Street. He is a Uvalde, Tex. banker tried & true (with mortgages on half the town) and therefore suspicious of larger operators. He has been credited with the world's largest herd of goats on his 23,000-acre ranch. He has recently built with his own money 25 houses...
...Vargas Government, because in practice the Germans, to get foreign exchange, have ruthlessly resold in other markets the coffee and cocoa they got from Brazil by barter, depressing prices at the expense of Brazil's best cash crops. One quick effect of the deal was felt in Wall Street, where Brazilian 1941 8's jumped from...
Living quietly in a comfortable brick house on Washington's S Street for the past 18 years, drawing a $5,000 yearly pension from the Government and occasionally entertaining a few friends at bridge, has been a buxom dowager of 66 who once set the U. S. on its ear. That was in the fall of 1915 when as Edith Boiling Galt, handsome, middle-aged widow of a Washington jeweler, she consented to marry 58-year-old Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U. S. This week Mrs. Edith Boiling galt Wilson once more made news when...
Mounted police with steel helmets and fixed bayonets charged the students when they attempted to march down Plus XI street to the German embassy. The students were driven into a side street and finally scattered after two attempts to break through the police cordons...