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...Sterling would have lost much of its market if its nationally famed products had been sold only in Rexall and Liggett stores, and conversely United Drug's manufactures could not be distributed by Sterling-they were for sale exclusively by Rexall stores. Therefore the two spouses could beget no common offspring. Yet they at once proceeded to adopt children. The adoptions were made in the joint name of Drug Inc.. but were really of two kinds: 1) The groom's adoptions consisting of several drug store chains: B. & R. Drug Stores (1928), May Drug Stores (1929), Wolff...
Valiant has been the response of Italian husbands to Signer Benito Mussolini's exhortations of last year that they should beget more bambini...
Decrowding should be accomplished, continued Signor Mussolini, by deporting back to the countryside peasant families and individuals who have recently moved cityward. The results to be expected from "a vigorous enforcement of decrowding" are, according to Il Duce: 1) Rural begetting by deported fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes...
...history. Fraulein Herz lived to be repaid 200% each year on her advance. Father Ludwig lived to see his British factory a spectacular success, to create the Brunner Mond Co. and the Mond Nickel Co., to amass a large and surprisingly good collection of Italian Madonnas, and to beget Alfred Moritz Mond...
...your own choice. Only the King is lonely and unhappy." "Unhappy," cried Little Minx Emma, according to her mother, "Then I will go to him and to them-my future subjects! I will do my duty, with God's help." Queen Emma. When Old King Willem proceeded to beget the present Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her mother, Queen Emma, had much ado to control a little Princess even more energetic, exuberant and wilful than she had been herself. For example, the Present Queen of the Netherlands behaved most obstreperously when, at the age of nine, she was compelled...