Word: citing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with deposits of $101,000 from which the cashier stole $93,000. Another told of a publishing-house cashier, a "weak, vacillating individual dominated by an extravagant wife," who stole $67,490 to keep up his social standing. Salesmen are instructed to emphasize the dangers of under-bonding, to cite the case of a tobacco company cashier who was bonded for $10,000, stole $147,000. Then there was the case of the branch manager of a sewing machine company who indulged in padding his payroll, retaining cash collections, forging endorsements on checks, appropriating money received on sale of second...
British armament shares were booming at such a rate last week that Labor's irate, pacifist London Daily Herald was able to cite 13 leading issues which have risen an average of 207% since His Majesty's Government started the boom with their $1,500,000,000 program of new armaments (TIME, Nov. 11). Urged to dampen this speculative rise by promising that His Majesty's Government will by law curtail armorers' profits, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said: "Great as the power of government is, I am afraid we can't control the speculator...
Historians in the future may very well cite this motion as one of the first official notices taken of the growing idea of colonial transfers. To be sure the motion is one of opposition but the very fact that such a proposal should even be introduced into the House of Commons shows that some individuals in authority have at last realized that peace can only be obtained through more equal territorial adjustments. Twenty years ago it would have been political suicide for any Government official even to speak of colonial transfers as a possibility...
Lawyer Johnston struggled on. "Please cite specific contracts," snapped Chief Justice Hughes a moment later, "so we can see precisely what it is you challenge...
When Il Duce got back to Rome he had his Grand Council cite The Deal as "repudiated" by Britain and had all Italy plastered with fresh slogan stickers reading: "There is always Reason in what Mussolini does...