Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
Recently the Soviet Government has forced foreign consulates to close down in manyparts of the Soviet Union. Finally it demanded that the British consul and his staff at Leningrad clear out. Last week the British Foreign Office quietly informed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that hereafter the only place in Russia where anyone can get a British visa will be His Britannic Majesty's Consulate in Leningrad...
...Humanitarian President Cardenas it was clear last week that Mexico will have much more money to spend on his own New Deal if it spends less money abroad. Because Cardenas not long ago promised that he would make no further use of his extraordinary powers after Jan. 1, 1938, his drastic tariff decree was carefully dated...
Happy Landing (Twentieth Century-Fox), is blonde, Figure Skater Sonja Henie's third motion picture, makes it clear that Producer Darryl Zanuck must soon find some other way of keeping Miss Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate...
...That ended its fourth life, but St. Mary's still had some left. Four months ago another San Francisco archbishop, Rev. John Joseph Mitty, marched into the bondholders' offices, bought back the college for $715,000. Last week the bells of St. Mary's rang loud & clear as a procession headed by Archbishop Mitty marched across its campus before its 450 students, celebrated with pomp & ceremony the college's 75th anniversary...