Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that the Albert Henry Wiggin Report of last August underestimated Germany's foreign debts by nearly a billion dollars. He admitted that Germany had at the present moment a favorable trade balance of about $83,000,000 a month, but it could not last. German exports are bound to fall because of competition from Great Britain and other countries off the gold standard, the raising of new tariff walls, the scarcity of fresh foreign credits. Most of Dr. Melchior's figures were substantiated by U. S. Delegate Walter W. Stewart, board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co., U. S. adviser...
Price Commissioner. Most important of all, Dr. Karl Goerdeler, until last week the little known Burgomaster of Leipzig, was given a post new to capitalist countries. If lawmaking could do it, Chancellor Bruning was bound to reduce living costs in Germany last week. Government salaries were slashed 10%. Wages in private industry were ordered reduced to the Tan 10, 1927 level. House rents were ordered reduced 10% to 15%. Retail prices of standardized articles were ordered reduced 10% and Dr. Goerdeler was appointed Price Commissioner, given autocratic powers to see that these decrees were enforced...
Spain's Constitution is one of the longest ever adopted by a modern nation. It contains 19 chapters and over 125 articles. Serviceably bound in red, yellow & purple covers, the 400,000 volumes hurtled down last week somewhat dangerously, but there were no serious casualties. Into the Royal Palace, his official residence for the time being, went Senor Alcala Zamora, preceded by four mace-bearers. In Fontainebleau, ex-King Alfonso XIII spent the day playing golf, turned in a poor card...
...murder of a noted bandit and racketeer is bound to be a matter of some interest to the "composite reader," When in addition the victim has successively over a seventeen-year period matured felonious little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even...
...beginning to end, is dramatic more by suggestion and implication than by action. Save for the first act which starts at a fountain-head of irritation, and streams along until the floodgates burst and matricide results, the force of the piece is derived from the pathetic circumstances which inextricably bound the lives of the essayist and his demented sister...