Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before he boarded the Potomac last week, the President completed action on the last of 937 bills passed and sent to the White House by Congress in its last session. Of the year's total, the President signed 897, vetoed 40. Last week at his Hyde Park desk, he signed: the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill (TIME, Aug. 30); a bill to permit exports of helium in ''non-military" quantities; a bill authorizing $2,760,000 to be appropriated for restoring U. S. wildlife (see p. 48); a bill providing $2,000,000 to purchase reindeer herds...
...famed Five Points Gang. Last week, in New York City, a Federal grand jury that had worked on the case for three months finally indicted Johnny Torrio and three henchmen for conspiracy to evade income taxes for 1933, 1934 and 1935, thereby defrauding, the U. S. Government of a total...
...Scholars in Exile") who had been ousted from academic posts in Germany by the Nazis. Most of them were Jews, partly Jewish, or married to Jewesses; some were pure "Aryans" who could not stomach the Nazi ideology. By the end of 1936 the Rockefeller Foundation had given a total of $532,000 to universities and research institutions on behalf of 151 of these scholars, most of whom have found permanent posts outside Germany...
...Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker has a cold, keen brain perfectly adapted to his job. In 1932, after various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...
...last February when great North American Co. (assets: $900,000,000) and American Water Works & Electric Co. ($384,000,000) consented to drop their litigation and register with SEC. Since then the number of companies registered has reached $6, representing assets of $5,000,000,000 out of a total of $17,000,000,000 in all companies affected by the Act. Beyond this there had been no public developments in this battle of the pyramids until last week when American Water Works offered SEC a plan for the simplification of its corporate structure...