Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slashed gasoline from 27½ to 19? in the East Indies. A probable cause: Standard has signed a $25,000,000 contract for Soviet refined products. It was this buying of what Shell calls "stolen oil" that precipitated the conflict between the companies three years ago. Complicating the affair this time is Shell's recent invasion of the Atlantic Seaboard and, more recently, the Rockies. Other U. S. oilmen are not concerned by a Shell-Standard fight that takes place in India and the Far East, but would all feel it should Shell carry the fight...
...letter which called forth this response was addressed to the President, Fellows, and Overseers of the University, and in general protested the action of the University authorities throughout the affair. The demand was made that back pay be given all of the women in order to remove from Harvard any stigma which might have accrued to her in connection with trying to evade the Minimum Wage Commission's ruling...
...serve as a souvenir of the production, and along with a summary printed on the program, will aid the audience in following the action. The comedy as produced in Latin is described by the production committee as "nothing for an audience to shy at, but an uproarious, somewhat immoral affair, with points of resemblance to 'Charley's Aunt' and 'Little Accident', and marked superiority over 'A Comedy of Errors', which Shakespeare probably based upon...
...helped to make his signature one of the best-known in the U. S. (Quotations from the Founder are still featured in the Wanamaker newspaper ads.) Author Wanamaker was apothegmatic. Examples: "Let us do things-do things." "No man can make horseshoes with gossip." "Success is not a haphazard affair...
...David Herbert Lawrence's latest novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, had to be printed privately in Paris, pirated editions in the U. S. and England were book-legged to collectors of erotica. Authorities almost unanimously adjudged it obscene, pornographic. It was the story of an illicit love affair between an English lady and the gamekeeper on her husband's estate: all details were given, all Anglo-Saxon unprintable words were printed. Author Lawrence defended his book, attacked the literary pirates who had stolen it, in a preface (published separately last year in the U. S. by Random...