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Word: cancels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East, asked New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to cancel the request for extradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Missing Men | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Minister of Justice Auriol, when he found such jibes were to be posted all over France, went purple with fury on the Government bench, threatened to resign and made such a scene that finally Senator Gardey himself persuaded the Senate to cancel its order for posting up his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Calling All Gold! | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

John L. Lewis, who has scheduled to speak Friday at the Annual meeting of the Business School Alumni Association, has found it necessary to cancel his acceptance because of "the pressure of duties which require his presence elsewhere" at the time of the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN L. LEWIS CAN'T SPEAK AT BUSINESS SCHOOL; TOO BUSY | 6/16/1937 | See Source »

...result of the Depression dilemma faced by policyholders was a large increase in the clientele of independent insurance counselors, who work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Protection v. Investment | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...waiting list at the House office in University 4. A few room in College dormitories outside the Yard are available for 1937-38. Applications for these rooms should be made immediately at Lehman Hall. Students who have reserved a room in the College dormitories will be allowed to cancel their reservations without charge in case they later receive assignment to a room in a House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALMOST HALF OF HOUSE APPLICANTS REJECTED | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

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