Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic" in reviewing the case points out that the best defense which Roosevelt can offer to this insidious assault is to publicize the affair ruthlessly, for the very nature of their business makes it impossible for the patent people to fight in the open. If these tactics are used it should be possible to end the victimization of the public by "cures" that are not only useless but very often harmful as well...
...cigar. Just before the verdict was expected he shook hands with Hunter Harness who might soon be escorting him back to the U. S. under guard. Then Presiding Judge Panegyrakis emerged with a fistful of scratch paper on which he had penciled the Court's decision. No light affair, it began with 25 minutes worth of ambiguity, got down to cases only in the last ten minutes, when the Presiding Judge exclaimed: "It is agreed that the man whose extradition is asked-an old man and suffering from a serious malady-has been a great engineer and businessman...
...decided to hold a mass-meeting on Boston Common this Saturday morning, for the discussion of the path to peace; at the meeting, "The Horror of It," a collection of choice photos of corpses and the like, will be sold. This gathering, it is said will be an intercollegiate affair; at least, some Wellesley students are expected to attend. Afterwards, if the plan goes through, there will be another meeting on the Widener steps, timed so that the participants can fall in behind the Cadets as they march to the Stadium; the Liberal Club members, a score or more strong...
...great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought he was dead when they carried...
...South America. His father commits suicide because he learns that his wife is misbehaving. Mean Mrs. Nordholm calls up her lover but he is too distressed by losses to aid in her crisis. Uncle Nordholm gets drunker than usual and insults a prelate. To top it all, the whole affair reminds Grandfather Nordholm (Paul Muni) of the day his wife went crazy so he dies also, of a heart attack...