Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Poland was not expected by competent European observers last week to sign the anti-Comintern Pact, since for Polish Dictator Edward Smigly-Rydz this would be equivalent to sticking his head between the jaws of his neighbor the Russian Bear, while giving it a clout in the ribs...
Among the major causes for the bear market which has existed since March were the smash that month of the British commodity boom and a simultaneous dishoarding of gold under rumors that the U. S. was about to raise the gold value of the dollar. Last week almost the exact reverse of this situation became evident. U. S. commodity prices were almost all at the year's cheapest and the Dow-Jones commodity index declined 3.26 to 52.60, a new low since 1935. Cotton was down to 7.70? per lb., wheat to 86? per bu., copper...
...trial at Lyon was a suit in which one of the aristocratic original founders of the Croix de Feu, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo, called M. Tardieu to bear witness that the Duke had spoken truly in making public accusations against Colonel de La Rocque which the colonel described in a speech as "maliciously false." The Duke took this charge as occasion to sue for slander, and the Lyon court was expected to give judgment next week...
Died. Mrs. Kathryn Lawes, 50, wife of Penologist Lewis E. Lawes; of shock, exposure and internal injuries, after a fall while walking on a hillside near Bear Mountain Bridge; in Ossining...
...West Pointers are not pinning their hopes on the little fellow to bear the brunt of the mascoting. For, as one Academy officer recently remarked, "In connection with the small mule, we still use the big G-I mule...