Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondents crossing the narrow strip separating the Czech Army lines from the German Army's advance lines in Sudetenland last week reported the most tragic aftermath of the Sudeten Settlement. Huddled in ditches or scrabbling in the fields for stray potatoes missed by the harvesters in this no-man's-land were hundreds of desperate Jews...
Dates of the series are as follows: Tuesday, November 1, "Aftermath of the Civil War"; Thursday, November 3, "Burying the Hatchet," and Tuesday, November 8, "Recent Times." Other notable men who have spoken for this series are Felix Frankfurter, Byrac Professor of Administrative Law, and Bernard DeVoto...
...Aftermath. As the storm raced inland, veering northwest toward Montreal, it flattened crops and orchards, wrenched away miles of wires, acres of signboards. It blew away the famed Jacobs Ladder trestle on Mt. Washington. Dumping trillions of tons of rain on New England, the hurricane swelled rivers already swollen by three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food...
More than additional candidates are expected this afternoon, unless the hurricane aftermath outs off the western contingent. Men out yesterday ran through conditioning work on the field and then watched the Varsity scrimmage...
...firms with aggregate free customers' balances of $51,349,000, Exchange accountants last week confirmed Mr. Simmons' assertion. The Exchange discovered a general disregard of a joint opinion of seven law firms representing the largest brokerage firms on the Exchange. This opinion, written in 1934 as an aftermath of the Banking Act of 1933 which divorced deposit banking from underwriting and brokerage, held that brokerage firms could legally keep their huge customers' balances so long as they segregated them in such a way that they would be "not available for use by the firm in its general...