Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tucked away in the Public Utility Act of 1935, lacking even the dignity of a separate paragraph, was a Congressional command to the Securities & Exchange Commission to investigate investment trusts. In the twilight of the 1920's, some $7,000,000,000 worth of investment trusts were floated, according to SEC figures. Their total assets were worth about $2,000,000,000 by the end of last year. It became SEC's job to find out where, how and why the rest disappeared. Last week after over a year of preliminary field work by a staff...
...then accepted "silver bullets" not to fight Nanking, which considered this a good investment as it thought he would never get away with the $30,000,000 in "small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken down by Chinese officers of his command, one getting $600,000. 4) He got away safely to Hongkong with possibly the largest haul ever made by a Chinese commander in this classic maneuver...
...osteopathic physician should rejoice that he has at his command a system of midwifery which utilizes the body's resources, thereby tending to produce healthy young. This system increases body resistance and safeguards the patient against diseases that may occur during pregnancy; it shortens the period of labor, reduces pain and minimizes the necessity of using anesthetics as well as the amount in which they are employed. The infant mortality rate in childbirth under osteopathic technique is only 37 per 1,000, as compared with 65 per 1,000 for cases handled by the medical profession. . . . The osteopathic maternal...
...evening paper city and its evening paper is the Post which shrieked its way to the top under rough, tough old Fred Bonfils. Denver is also a city in which Scripps-Howard has had some of the hardest going in its career. Last week the Scripps-Howard high command picked a new proconsul for its Rocky Mountain News, prayed for a change in its journalistic luck...
...democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed to Chen's job and rushed back to his First Army on the northern Kwangtung border. There he wheeled his army about, marched towards Canton to take over...