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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly met in Quito last fortnight to name the country's next President, the Conservative majority was all primed to sack dictatorial President José Maria Velasco Ibarra. Conservative Boss Mariano Suárez Veintimilla had passed the word...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
...money corporate financing in history floored the stock-market last week for a count of nine. On Wednesday, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced it planned to issue $351 million in debentures and increase its authorized capital stock from 25 million to 35 million shares. No sooner had word reached the Street than A. T. &T. stock took a dive...
Then came word from Washington that OPA needed more time to prepare new price schedules; stockyard ceilings would not take effect until Aug. 29, with slaughterhouse ceilings following on Sept. 1, retail ceilings on Sept. 9. Result: a thunderous stampede to beat the deadline...
Last month the ominous word went out over Los Angeles' Spring Street that "cleaning up this Citizens National situation" had become No. one on the list of things 76-year-old Mr. Giannini wanted to do before it was too late. Early in August every director of the bank received a letter from Giannini. "The management [needs] strengthening," he wrote. "I trust you will take immediate steps...