Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, took a Manchester audience into his confidence on the subject of his daughter, Sharman, 21, who shares with her close friend, Princess Margaret, a liking for the gay social whirl. Confessed Douglas: "My daughter is quite beyond me. There is little I can say about...
...trustees, if it had to teach the superiority of Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races or bar Jewish students. After that the judge withdrew his offer. Jefferson seemed back where he found it. "The school is operating at a loss," said one of the trustees. "We plan to close ... at the end of the year, under present conditions...
...ties, brought down the house with four new Stamps-Baxter songs: I'm Having a Good Time Here, Dreaming, with a falsetto blues-style solo, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, with new words and music,* and Far Above the Starry Sky. Delegates cheered the quartet's close harmony and syncopation, bought 500 copies of their songbooks and records...
Missouri-born Bill Corum, 54, who makes close to $100,000 a year from his writing and his drawling broadcasts, will get an estimated $25,000 more just for promoting and running the Derby. He will continue his syndicated column for the New York Journal-American, but readers will get no more of his spring racing columns. During April and May his typewriter will be covered; Bill Corum will be in Louisville filling the job that old Matt Winn had held for 47 years...
...something like panic began. There seemed to be no reason for it, but everybody began to sell. In that final hour of trading, 2,500,000 shares changed hands and prices tumbled crazily: Auburn Auto, which had recently sold as high as 514, lost 77 points to close at 260; Adams Express, which had once been up to 750, lost 96 to close at 440. The closing bell stopped the selling. All night, brokers sent out frantic telegrams to the hundreds of thousands who had bought on margin, putting up as little as 10% of the cash price...