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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...seventh annual conference of major industries. Most of them were optimistic for the long-pull. George Matthew Verity, benevolent president of American Rolling Mill Co., declared: "The steel industry is like a great giant tied and pulling at its shackles. It is impatient to go. And go he will within a comparatively short time." "A successful and prosperous year in 1931" was predicted by Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr., polo-playing young vice president of Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...Ohio. Within the fortnight Cleveland put 9,000 idle men to work. The city sent a representative to Detroit to study its advanced system of Unemployment relief (TIME, Oct. 27). Remembering their religious vow to "let no one go hungry while there is food," the Amish sect sent supplies from their farms into Cleveland...
...statute books by the last British Government (that of Conservative Stanley Baldwin) this act was designed to prevent a recurrence of the British general strike (TIME, May 10, 1926 et seq.), is detested by every Laborite. Clamor within the party has finally forced Laborite MacDonald to seek its repeal, to risk almost certain defeat on the one issue on which the Liberals, who hold the balance of power in Parliament, may be expected to vote against...
...questions. Exulting in the success of the "Buy British Goods" campaign pushed by the vast majority of British firms which advertise at all, he jubilantly concluded: "If American goods sold in Britain were labelled 'American Made,' some 2,000,000 British unemployed would go to work within a year...
...When I arrived in Ethiopia the King was glad to see me. ... I took off with a French pilot. . . . We climbed to 5,000 ft. as 50,000 people cheered, and then I jumped out and tugged open my parachute. ... I floated down to within 40 ft. of the King, who incidentally is the greatest of all modern rulers. . . . He rushed up and pinned the highest medal given in that country on my breast, made me a colonel and the leader of his air force-and here...