Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patient and slightly bewildered public learned last week that the June strike of the actors and the subsequent struggle with the managers will affect the Fall season scarcely at all. With the exception of David Belasco, George M. Cohan, George Tyler and Henry Miller, the managers have admitted defeat and are casting productions under the new and slightly rigid conditions demanded by the Actors' Equity Association...
...abroad, in which this country is vitally interested. It is with this view, that, in response to the invitation extended by Prime Minister MacDonald, instructions have been given to Ambassador Kellogg to attend the conference in London on July 16 for the purpose of dealing with such matters as affect the interests of the United States and otherwise for purposes of information...
...Spring passes into Summer, it becomes more and more apparent that American business will not really get its bearings until the political conventions are over, and until the results of the Fall's election as far as they will affect trade can be intelligently fore cast. With the Democratic candi date still unknown, both "platforms" yet unannounced, and the seriousness of La Follette's third party gesture not clearly determined, a tone of hesitation in the markets is quite natural...
...Harvard University studied the changes in the hearts of long distance runners. They found that men, who had been doing long distance running for years, did not develop enlargement of the heart. They found, also, that the amount of breathing space in the lungs did not seem to affect in one way or another the running ability of the men. This year the same observers studied the men who attempted to qualify for the Olympic games in the Boston marathon, a course of 26 miles and 285 yards. The contestants were examined a day or two before and then immediately...
Secretary Hoover added: "Large corporations already publish these facts through reports to stockholders, and this requirement therefore does not materially affect them...