Word: personality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repealed an old requirement that lifeboats on passenger ships be so designed that one person can lower both boat-ends at the same time...
With the British bankers and Government negotiators in person Minister Nash was equally persuasive. He signed with British President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley a joint memorandum outlining New Zealand's future trade policy in which Great Britain recognizes New Zealand's necessity for reducing imports, approves the methods adopted. For her part, New Zealand promises to foster Anglo-New Zealand trade, assures Great Britain that no uneconomic industries will be protected. Most important, Britain granted New Zealand $45,000,000 in credits ($25,000,000 to be spent on defense, $20,000,000 on imports...
...cotton products. This was the first time that the "products" phrase of the authority had been used, and it was a politically agile move, since nobody has damned the New Deal, particularly its Wage & Hour Bill, harder than Southern textile men. He now announced that, beginning July 27, every person who exports U. S. cotton will be paid a subsidy of 1.5? per lb., and every exporter of cotton goods will get from 1? to 2.1? according to classification...
...tenement at No. 328 Henry Street, on Manhattan's lower East Side, were bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...
...calling this to the attention of the public because it represents a culmination of other false news stories to which the attention of the United Press has been called by me and by my office on previous occasions. . . . This latest episode . . . represents the limit of any decent person's patience...