Word: againe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That year he began borrowing heavily on his newspapers and real estate, carelessly scrawling his signature as further security for the debts. By 1930 banks had floated $60,000,000 worth of bonds and mortgages personally guaranteed by Hearst. Meanwhile the stockmarket had crashed and Hearst was strapped again.
Anxious to extend the original subways, the city found soon after the turn of the century that it could do so only on the I. R. T.'s and B. R. T.'s terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R...
When peppery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia took office in 1934, he designated Samuel Seabury and A. A. Berle Jr. to try again. Their $436,000,000 proposal was rejected after public hearings by the Transit Commission as too high. This brought bitter words between the commission and Mayor LaGuardia. but...
Particularly steady readers were Mussolini's censors. Last month they decided they had read enough. Omnibus was suppressed, and Editor Longanesi was told by Minister of Press and Propaganda Dino Alfieri that he would not again edit an Italian magazine, thus sparing the good folk of Italy a "debasement...
You cannot indict a whole people, but unless you do you cannot start a war against them. For the common people on both sides in the World War, that lesson seemed bitterly evident for all time. Today it is apparently being forgotten all over again. Few men-in-the-street...