Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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First defiance of President Hoover in the Senate last week came on drought relief legislation.* Though the President's drought agents had recommended a $60,000,000 measure last October, the Department of Agriculture later whittled this estimate down to $25,000,000. Over Presidential protest the Senate Committee...
The dramatic drain of gold from the Bank of England into the Bank of France (TIME, Dec. i et ante) continued last week at quickened tempo, reached $1,750,000 daily. When $5,000,000 of virgin gold arrived in England from South Africa, the French snapped it up, contracted...
Gold reserves in the U. S. were up to $4,500,000,000 last week, down in Britain to $750,000,000. The gold theory of the MacDonald Government (TIME, Dec. 1) is that the "stupendous hoard" of gold in the U. S. and France has become "largely sterilized" and...
Owen D. Young on Gold. Just back from Europe last week, Tycoon Owen D. Young addressed Manhattan's famed Lotos Club in a manner which caused him to be mooted again for the White House (see p. 15). But Mr. Young also said things which made German editors leap...
In course of falling down and picking themselves up last week were three European. Cabinets: