Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given us by the Belgrade Dictatorship, but seven fat years lie ahead!" Seasoned old Croat rebels, such as famed Svetozar Pribitchevitch who now lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel Pribitchevitch. "The main condition imposed by Germany for co-operation would be Yugoslav acceptance of Austro-German union, which would make Germany our country...
...retailing of securities through affiliates but it would allow them the profits of underwriting and wholesaling. Consequently shares of big Manhattan and Chicago banks soared on the news last week. One of the biggest beneficiaries would be J. P. Morgan & Co., which under the Banking Act of 1955 chose to surrender its commanding position in security underwriting rather than its hundreds of millions of deposits...
...musical director of Radio Station WTMJ in Milwaukee, asserted that he would be unable to operate without the popular music in ASCAP's catalog. ASCAP controls many an orchestration where it does not control the original tune. Milwaukee's Benning admitted that in such cases his station chose to use ASCAP's products rather than pay the price for special arrangers...
...lumber kingdom lies, but from Washington, D. C. last week went news that one of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser's kidnappers had been caught, another identified. Few were the facts which Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation chose to reveal, but they were enough to make the nation cheer for its police, blush for its prisons...
...Talmadge certified that Repeal had been beaten by 243 votes.* Same day, Methodist McBrayer was suspended from his pastorate, charged with "aiding and abetting the sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage in violation of the discipline of the Church." Told to stand trial or surrender his credentials, he chose trial...