Word: ancient
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...Author, born in Paris (1896), like his eccentric bachelors is a member of the ancient French nobility. His family's rank dates from the 15th Century. One of his forbears was cupbearer to Louis XIV; an other lost his head in the French Revolution. Henry de Montherlant served in both the U. S. and French Armies during the War, headed the Propaganda Service of the Comite France-Amerique after the Armistice...
...promoter of the "Farm Holiday." It did include Edward A. O'Neal, head of the Federal Farm Bureau Federation, a good ally of the New Deal, and representatives of the Farmers' Union (strong in the South) and of the National Grange which favors a revival of the ancient McNary-Haugen Plan...
James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
Last week, however, U. S. bankers had other things to worry about than the latest blast from the founder of the National Union For Social Justice. Opened each December by Manhattan's ancient Bank of the Manhattan Co., the season for annual bank stockholders' meetings was in full bloom. From hundreds of meetings shareholders learned that deposits were around record highs, that loans were around record lows. The trend of earnings was currently upward, though full year profits were often less than in 1934. Recoveries from assets previously written down or charged off contributed substantially to profits...
...announced easier finance terms for prospective Ford buyers. Feature of the plan was a maximum monthly payment of $25. Last week Chevrolet Motor Co. an nounced that during January it would pay its dealers $20 for every old car scrapped or junked, had appropriated $1,000,000 to get ancient wrecks off the highways...