Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanctions Lifted, By the time the League Assembly finally got down to cases after a fatiguing midnight session many correspondents were so muddled by the confused events of the week that their dispatches were far from newsworthy, obscuring in many cases the actual result of the final vote: SANCTIONS WERE LIFTED FROM ITALY BY THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ETHIOPIA IS FINISHED...
...order. On the road for the next few years, he assiduously read Gideon Bibles in hotels, sold so much steel that in 1929 he was made assistant sales manager, later assistant to the president, finally vice president. Forthright, aggressive Mr. Millsop has been in actual charge of Weirton since last summer, when the late President John C. Williams became fatally ill. A good mixer, Weirton's best labor handshaker, President Millsop likes ancient history, sports, goes to company baseball games in his shirtsleeves...
...when Publisher Robert J. Collier (Colliers Magazine) got the idea of giving a trophy for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America, the value of which has been demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year," Donald Wills Douglas was an Annapolis midshipman who spent much of his time throwing model airplanes out his dormitory window. In 1912, when the first 2-ft. bronze Collier Trophy was awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro-airplane development, young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head...
...restricted field of domestic farm staples, however, the Commodity Act hews closer to the general line of securities regulation. Trading sins include manipulation, wash sales, dealing in options, bucketshop operations and routine fraud. Customers have to put up actual margins, something of an innovation for big speculators whose credit is good. One customer's funds may not be used to support another customer's accounts. Floor brokers and commission merchants with a futures business have to register with the Commission. Among the Commission's wide discretionary powers are the right to delay or advance contract settlements...
...better. Like an oil drill going down, the column of Landon delegates continued steadily up. To the 388 lined up by Monday were added most of New York's 90. Then 50 of Pennsylvania's 75. That clinched it-unless the rig should go haywire before the actual balloting. Alf Landon permitted himself to josh Harry Woodring, his Democratic predecessor as Governor, now Assistant Secretary of War, who had bet against Landon's luck. "Well, Harry," he said, "I'll invite you to dinner at the White House to compensate...