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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refrained from making a major issue out of the component parts of a measure Administration leaders will be obliged to pass eventually to save their own faces. Invited to debate, Congressmen can get their grievances against NRA out of their systems without taking a slap at the President. The widespread Congressional urge to "investigate" this prime piece of New Deal experimentation from a dozen different angles will doubtless spend itself harmlessly in the protracted House and Senate hearings. Then two or three months from now the White House will take weary committees in hand and subtly devise just the kind...
...Hashanah (New Year). Yom Kippur falls next on Oct. 7. Last week U. S. Christians were pondering a proposal that they join with 4,000,000 U. S. Jews in celebrating this high holy day. Proposer: Rev. Charles D. Brodhead of Bethlehem, Pa., who said, "In this period of widespread anti-Semitic pressure it would be a timely witness to our common religious bond with...
Berlin, Feb. 28--Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler tonight greeted the return of Germany's lost daughter, the Saar, with an "Emancipation Day" proclamation granting widespread amnesty to imprisoned persons...
...Underlying the proposed changes in the banking law are fundamental economic and monetary considerations, the widespread influence of which has not been adequately understood. . . . Fluctuations in production and employment and in the national income are conditioned upon changes in the available supply of cash and deposit currency and upon the rate and character of monetary expenditures." But he emphasized that one of the "supremely important duties" of the remodeled Federal Reserve Board was "assuring that a recovery does not result in undesirable inflation...
With thawing reported widespread north to Montreal, it seems unlikely, Captain Ad Carter said yesterday, that the skiing them will be able to get in any concentrated practice before its next meet, an open race on Russell Mountain, Woodstock, New Hampshire, Sunday, February...