Word: assets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already the doubtful nature of this hoarded asset has caused a decline in the Brazilian currency-the milreis. Sooner or later the Government must unload. Recent crops have been bumper. Most observers believe that the Government cannot hold out, faces an eventual catastrophic coffee crash. Shrewdest coffeemen do not know when the crash will come, but last week's howling and hopping seemed of ominous significance...
...only woman lawyer, now studying jurisprudence in the U. S. A big woman, born 31 years ago in Syria, she has the lavish figure and smooth skin which discriminating Egyptians are known to prefer. Her jet hair matches her darting eyes; her dimples make her laughter an asset of which any lawyer might well be proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes of Egypt ,† she earns some $25,000 a year. What Mme. Garzouzi said last week she said in perfect English. But because her subject was the proposed Anglo-Egyptian Treaty (TIME, Aug. 19), which Prime Minister...
...legality of this merger, although his Republican attorney-general has reported it as within the law. Last week's excitement also centred along the St. Lawrence. Niagara-Hudson bought control of Frontier Corp., a company owned by Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric and the du Ponts. One asset of Frontier Corp. is a waterpower site at Long Sault, on the St. Lawrence. Frontier Corp. prepared to develop this site two years ago, was blocked by Governor Alfred E. Smith. It may now make a new attempt, or may postpone operations until after Jan. i, 1931, in the hope that...
...first time a unified organization meets the combined football forces of the University. The Horween system, however experts and dopesters may define its defects or its assets will be afforded a complete tryout. The full potentiality of his coaching will be felt from the most insignificant freshman candidate to the star of the Crimson team, a training extending over a period of four years. What was felt to be the greatest asset to the great Notre Dame teams of several years ago, namely the long time period of training under Knute Rockne, will be in a sense realized at Harvard...
Massachusetts Democrats, elated at the "messiness" of Republican politics, sought out one Marcus A. Coolidge, Fitchburg manufacturer, asked him to stand for the Senate. Alive to the added danger of a Coolidge Democrat, Senator Moses at the White House declared: "The name of Coolidge is exclusively a Republican asset in Massachusetts...