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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quietus on accusations that the U. S. was welshing, holders of Government gold-clause bonds were to be offered an immediate chance to exchange their securities for 1) otherwise identical non-gold-clause bonds, or 2) cash at par. This was a plain invitation by the Government to the public: If you are afraid of inflation, cask your bonds now and use the money to hoard commodities or anything else you think will protect yon from inflation. Little danger did the Treasury run of the public's demanding $10,000,000,000. Any bondholder who wants cash...
...railroad station in St. Paul a spokesman among the departing colonists yowled because the Government had promised them Pullman sleepers and here they were having to ride in plain day coaches. Embarking at San Francisco, 39 colonists staged a near-insurrection because they saw none of the radios, sewing machines and washing machines the Government had promised. Other complaints filtered down from the North. The Government had promised full medical service, but there was only one doctor for some 2,000 men, women, children. All children and most adults were reported mildly sick, vastly terrified at the thought...
...Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's famed English 12 course and working on the editorial staffs of all three campus publications-Crimson, Advocate, Lampoon. He asked questions when he accompanied his father to newspaper conventions, and when, after graduation in 1920, he started on the Register & Tribune as a plain reporter. He still asks questions wherever he goes, on his frequent visits to Manhattan and Washington. No corn-fed bumpkin, no dallying rich-man's-son. inquisitive John Cowles has stored behind his thick-lensed glasses and his moon face a wealth of essential fact. An excellence of perspective...
...misty June moon shone down on Madison Square Garden's Long Island City Bowl one night last week as a solemn prizefighter in a blue bathrobe climbed through the ropes. The plain Irish face of James J. (born Walter) Braddock was puckered with earnest anxiety. Improvident of his earnings when he was a top-flight light heavyweight seven years ago, 29-year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed...
...passionate and imaginative record of Emancipation, in which pages of dates and documents are suddenly interrupted for bursts of prose poetry and cries of thanksgiving. Although his chapters on the workings of the Negro Legislatures in the South after the war will be of more interest to students, plain readers are likely to find his arguments with previous authors tedious, his claims of the social responsibility shown by black law-makers exaggerated...