Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stairs, and the old main stairway have been enclosed with steel and glass partitions which will act as smokescreens and will improve temperature conditions. Rooms 1 and 2 have already been redecorated and it is hoped that it will be possible to re-decorate all the class rooms in the building...
...just about everyone except Japanese apologists, the reasons why Japan acted when and as she did this year in China are three, and they are pikestaff plain: 1) Japan saw the U. S. adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention...
...than she could use and at too high prices. It would cost the Province some $400,000,000 over a period of the next 40 years to pay what she owed under these contracts-so in effect "Mitch" simply tore them up by having his Parliament pass the Power Act of 1935 by which he declared the contracts "illegal, void and unenforceable...
...summer, on his vacation at Narragansett, R. I., Mr. Watson made a point of meeting Nudancer Sally Rand, who suggested he send her copies of his songs. When he got back to Pawtucket, Mr. Watson promptly dispatched them to her, said she could use them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college graduate or not, but there are few college graduates who can speak as well as Miss Rand. She is most modest...
...shares of $1 par stock, of which President David Smart owned outright 181,450 shares, Secretary-Treasurer Alfred Smart 83,125, Vice-President John Smart 12,500, Co-Publisher Weintraub 33,010.* To make way for the first major public financing by a publishing house since the Securities Act of 1933, Dave Smart sold to the underwriters for $13.75 a share 35,000 shares, Alfred Smart 6,000 and others the rest of the total of 75,000 shares sold to the public in July for $16. According to its prospectus, Esquire-Coronet plans soon to pay annual dividends...