Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moscow. Soviet Russia is normally one of the largest importers of German goods. The Kremlin stood ready to cancel millions of dollars of German contracts, were holding them out as bait for U. S. recognition...
...bellowed a loud protest at the Soviet Union for its jailing of four British subjects on charges of sabotage. Conservatives and reactionaries in the Oemmons gleefully welcomed the pretext to indulge in verbal Bolshevik-baiting, dwelling fervidly on the wicked OGPU and its modern inquisition tendencies. Threats to cancel lrade and diplomatic relations with Russia are noised about. Meanwhile Russia has announced her intention to go through with the trial...
Cambridge's reaction was immediate. In every quad from Trinity to Jesus up went the cry "CANCEL THE BOAT RACE!"-the most stinging rebuke that undergraduate minds could conceive. Officials of the Cambridge Union, second only to the Oxford in Empire prestige, described the 275 pacifist Oxonians as "game gaffers." *Promptly President F. M. Hardy of the Oxford Union received a box containing 275 white feathers. They had been sent, London newspapers said, "from a women's college." Next day a second box brought 275 more white feathers. "Neither consignment," stiffly announced the President of the Union, "came...
...loudly barracked (jeered). The Australian Board of Cricket Control protested to the Marylebone Cricket Club of London that his methods were unsporting. The Maryle-bone-which was formed 200 years ago and in 1788 drafted the rules of cricket as they now stand-defended Bowler Larwood, offered to cancel the rest of the series (TIME, Feb. 6). When England won the Ashes last week, the Australian Board of Cricket Control promptly cabled congratulations. The Marylebone sent thanks, appreciation for "the kind reception given to the team...
...employes last week U. S. Steel Corp. made its annual stock subscription offer-200,000 shares at $27 a share, about the market price. It was the lowest offer ever made. Highest was $169 a share in 1930. Steel's workers are permitted to cancel their subscription with a refund of all paid up instalments plus 5% interest, thus protecting them against a slump in price. But to discourage this Steel has always in effect guaranteed dividends through payment of "special benefits" for a period of five years after the offer. "Special benefits" on this year's offer...