Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast. Before 10 a.m. the closing of all the security and commodity exchanges of Chicago and New York had been announced- all except the Livestock Exchange in Chicago, for livestock is perishable, its distribution must go on. By that hour the three-block-long factory of the American Bank Note plant in The Bronx was roaring with activity, with police at the doors to keep the inquisitive away. At 1 :oo p.m. 100,000 citizens whose banks were closed saw Citizen Roosevelt transformed to President...
...Treasury Building. A score of bankers rather the worse for wear after a night on the train on top of several previous nights of worry straggled up the steps-prominent bankers but the same group who were familiar in the Treasury-Department during the late Hoover regime. Of special note was George W. Davison of Central Hanover Bank who fathered the great scrip issue of 1907. Standing by from the Hoover regime were Eugene Meyer, Ogden Mills, Under-Secretary Ballantine, Assistant Secretary Jim Douglas...
...Other stores about town had claims of $600 on him for household furnishings, clothes, books, jewelry. Against him was pending a $1,000 deficiency judgment because his home, on which he had a $5,000 mortgage, brought only $4,000 at forced sale. A friend held his unsecured note for $500. That made his total indebtedness $3,000 and his creditors were clamoring for full and immediate payments...
...Moscow Soviet's decree provided last week that the person responsible for every room (two families often live in one) must have available at all times a "sanitary passport." Inspectors will stamp this passport, certifying that the room has been aired as per decree. They will also note "improvements," such as greater tidiness, fewer bedbugs. If no improvements are noted after a specified period, luckless roomers will be fined...
...sugar coated pill kept in the bathroom cabinet as a laxative or "tonic." Children eat the pills for candy, die in convulsions. In the current Journal of the A. M. A. the Indianapolis clinicians give specific instructions for intravenous administration of sodium amytal, sodium pentobarbital or phenobarbital sodium. They note, as have other investigators, that the antidotes themselves are poisonous in large doses. Specific antidote for their poisoning is strychnine...