Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people made a decision of far greater historical import than the choice of a new Chief Executive. For better or for worse, the U. S. people decided that it would not put up with deflation-the price that capitalism has always had to pay for its periodic excesses. What the U. S. wanted was a President who would "do something." And doing something meant preventing the country from going through the wringer...
...Other meats not available, chicken reached price levels reminiscent of early oil-rush days. Eggs were soon unobtainable. No Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. employe suffers unduly from this lack of foodstuffs, for the rich concern, having profited from cash sales of oil to warring Italy three years ago, can import vast quantities of canned foods...
...Rochas' dresses were seized by Customs officers in December, but M. Rochas was already back in Paris. According to the indictment, what he had apparently done was to import both dresses and mannequins, and the mannequins were told to say the dresses belonged to them; thus M. Rochas avoided the duty. Last week on the door of the pompous Rochas shop on East 6th Street was a receivership notice. Left to answer to a conspiracy indictment for smuggling was only the shop's manager, M. Guy de Font-Joyeuse, whom the mannequins call "Papa...
...been assured by New York's John O'Connor that "you could not possibly spend more than 50? a gallon in making whiskey," the House approved an amendment raising liquor taxes from $2 to $2.25 a gallon, which should bring in $25,000,000 a year, slapped import duties on pork and pork products which should bring in $5,000,000 more. Thereupon, after defeating one more woebegone attempt to slip the third basket back into the bill, the House passed it 293 to 97, sent it to the Senate...
...indication of the true import of this bill is its parturition in the patriotic breast of Senator McNaboe, whose record includes vigorous support of the New York Teachers' Oath Law and an oft repeated demand for an investigation of subversive activities on the Cornell campus. It is discouraging that a legislature which has just enacted a constructive program of social reform should have taken so seriously the emotional fulminations of Senator McNaboe, that it passed a bill which would bar from teaching posts some idealistic parlor pinks whose sole crime is the possession of a confused and incoherent social consciousness...