Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, the defendants submitted, inspired them with "confidence" in Sacha Stavisky, alias Serge Alexandre. If he now & then asked some of the defendants to perform individual crooked acts, and if some of the defendants even admitted performing these, that did not alter the submission of all the defendants that as individuals they had had no knowledge of the vast ramifications of Swindler Stavisky's crockeries but had considered him a man of substance. Stavisky was, they submitted, a "Financial Napoleon," the magnitude of whose coups and victories on the Bourse erased his peccadillos from the minds of Cabinet Ministers...
...real disruptions will come in regard to measures that Franklin Roosevelt must set his hand against. Among eminent possibilities: the Townsend Plan; the Frazier-Lemke bill for paying off farm mortgages with $3,000,000 in greenbacks; attempts to alter or repeal the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
...Morgenthau's solemn declaration that he had bought silver every day last week did not alter the case, for he refused to say how much he had bought or where he had made his purchases. His purchases may have been negligible and, wherever made, they were not made in London. After driving all other purchasers out of the great international silver market, he had suddenly turned his back and left that market to go to pot. World silver trading stopped dead in its tracks. From 65? the price on various exchanges dropped...
Ethiopia's Emperor, advised by his Maine Yankee alter ego, Mr. Everett Colson, set the counter trap of demanding in a cablegram to Geneva that The Deal be scrutinized by the entire League Assembly in which minor nations have the majority, though they have never dared to make effective use of it. If once he could get 40 or even 30 little nations squawking. Emperor Haile Selassie knew they could be counted on to make the world's welkin ring in his favor...
...stutterers get down on their hands & knees, talk while crawling. In every case the stuttering was notably diminished, in some cases eliminated entirely-so long as the crawling posture was maintained. Reporting this last week in Science, Experimenter Hazle Geniesse ventured a guess that such a posture might alter the cerebral blood pressure, remove the spasmodic stimulus. ¶ Dr. Donald Anderson Laird, Colgate's well-publicized authority on sleep, also had a report to make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited by acquiring the upright position, there...