Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorandum also asked for a full apology, compensation, and guarantees against a repetition of such attacks. Since Japan's Emperor Hirohito, to Japanese minds, is a divinity who is not of the Government but above it, the knottiest problem posed for trie Japanese was 1) how to bring the matter to his attention or 2) how to avoid doing so without offending the U. S. By week's end Washington was assured that the Roosevelt note had been brought to Hirohito's attention by Premier Fumimaro Konoye...
...President promised among other things to bring about a planned recovery, to reduce unemployment, to look after the interests of the small man, to stabilize commodity prices, and to prevent violent market fluctuations. Recovery has now been checked, the volume of unemployment is rising sharply, thousands of small investors have been impoverished, there has been a steep fall in the commodity-price level, and the fluctuations of the market during the past three months . . . have been more violent than at any time since...
...protest to the House Judiciary Committee. Terming the case "not an isolated instance of arbitrary, unjust and unfair conduct on the part of Judge Geiger." Mr. Cummings declared, "this course of conduct is so obstructive to the administration of justice that I could not justify a failure to bring it to your attention...
...damages of $300,000. He then sent compliments to Lawyer Neylan for his handling of the case. Comparing himself to Emile Zola defending Dreyfus, Lawyer Neylan stormed back: "I am serving notice now on all those behind the present litigation against Mr. Fleishhacker that I am going to bring them into the open and I am going to clear his name if it takes the rest of my professional life. ... I also take this means of communicating to Judge Cosgrave . . . [that] I estimate at less than nothing his compliments...
...somebody's attic, many a musty label bearing such an inscription has caused hearts to beat faster. Most violins so discovered are fakes or "copies" made in Italy, Germany or Japan to retail at between $5 and $50. Real "Strads," violins made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, bring from $10,000 to $85,000. There are only about 540 authentic known Strads in existence, 163 of which are owned in the U. S., and when one of them changes hands the cat-eyed dealers and collectors of three continents record the event...