Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resignation of John William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency. For 17 years a civil servant, Mr. Pole had been made Comptroller during the final days of the Coolidge regime. He showed rare courage in office by allowing national banks to carry their bonds at fair values through the worst of Depression, thus saving them from insolvency. Mr. Pole becomes president of Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling and Manhattan...
Actually the state of affairs ridiculed by Comrade Kosariov was and is to a great extent the standard of life throughout Russia which is facing her worst food shortage since the Famine Year 1921. Scarcely any of the young Communists who heard him possess or will possess a necktie for years to come, let alone a business suit. For that reason they cheered wildly his new directive to the Communist Youth movement: "We are not against love! We are not against flowers! We are not ascetics and we do not preach asceticism. We are for a full and many-sided...
Russia may be facing her worst food shortage since 1921 (TIME, Sept. 12).* She may be turning the lives of millions of comrades topsy turvy (see above). But Russia remained last week the land of outrageous contrasts, the One Sixth of the World which dwarfs mere generalities. Russia was making one architect so wealthy and so happy last week that his good luck gave him the jitters...
...Food conditions, in the opinion of Russians are the worst since the famine of 1921," cabled Chicago Daily News' William H. Stoneman last week. "The clothing supply is still inadequate... Peasants fron the impoverished countryside continue to flock to the centres, bringing bedbugs and dirty habits, disrupting sanitary arrangements...
...absurd," barked War Minister Sadoo Araki in his office. "They merely reflect the nervousness of some overzealous persons, frightened at imaginary dangers." Such overzealous persons included the entire Japanese gendarmery, directly subordinate to tut-tutting Lieut.-General Araki. Japanese reporters, calling at offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed, rushed off to concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo last week Japanese spies, ever industrious but often stupid, carried what they said was a copy of the League of Nation's secret Report on Manchuria, drafted at a cost of more than...