Word: comly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was Henry-Churchill DeMille, who collaborated on plays with the late David Belasco. When Henry DeMille died, his widow first turned her home into a girls' school, sent young Cecil to Pennsylvania Military College. his older brother William to Columbia. Later she founded the DeMille Play Com pany, originally formed to supply the in creasing demand for DeMille-Belasco plays, which did a flourishing agent's business for 20 years. Young Cecil studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, set out to be an actor. After a few seasons on the stage, he became manager of his mother...
...sound finance, yielding to the extraordinary fiscal demands of a powerful President. One by one, Governor Black saw the important functions of the Reserve System taken away ? its control of the currency, its control of credit. Future financiers will know whether his yielding saved the System from com plete destruction or paved the way for its complete downfall...
...committee of Stewart-Warner Corp., was made chairman of the board of directors, succeeding the late Robert J. Graham. Onetime official of General Electric Co.. now president of Chicago's Speedway Manufacturing Co.. Chairman Knowlson went on Stewart-Warner's board of directors after the com pany was forced to clean house by the accusations of its fourth largest stockholder and most famed inventor, Oscar Ulysses Zerk (TIME, March...
...bulk of responsibility for foreign creditors' disappointments. . . . Germany's declaring a moratorium bespeaks an energy which Gilbert never possessed!" For his part Dr. Schacht, who works, eats and sleeps at the Reichsbank, had an elaborate thesis of accusation which he read out in the Reichsbank Central Com mittee Chamber, directly under his bed room. Drawing a deep breath for the cataract of words he was about to utter, Dr. Schacht cried: "Now that our colonies which were attaining before the War to increasing importance as sources of raw materials have been taken away in a fashion that practically...
...miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity). In a rousingly successful benefit concert the final number was an extempore alphabet duet by the two drunken principals: "Com-ing to the letter Q, Vendt began to show signs of emotion; his mood was contagious and even the druggist was soon deeply touched. At the back of the house their audience was moaning with laughter. The singers were giving of their best; each waved his free hand gently...