Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Soviet Union's Foreign Commissar, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was reminded by correspondents last spring that Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union have no common frontier and was asked how his country could possibly go to Czechoslovakia's aid in case of war, the Commissar exclaimed: "Where there's a will there...
...rnberg, as many as 250,000 in a single audience, were bellowing cheers at each fresh threat by a German leader against the Czechoslovak Republic (see p. 19). So hot was this roaring menace that all over Czechoslovakia it drove political opponents to take refuge in a common patriotism...
...lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament of the Oxford Group I have found some common sense with real fire behind it-not the mean-minded revolution of the changed life in the individual, which never goes beyond personal convenience, but a broad evolution which changes a nation's moral climate. This new evolution is our last chance...
Lane-Wells Co., 208,006 shares of common stock at $15.25 a share. Back in Depression I, two middle-aged engineers named Bill Lane and Walt Wells, down to their last $500, perfected a gun with which they could shoot through the steel-&-cement well-casing of dry or abandoned oil wells at levels thought to be oil-bearing. Since then they have turned a pretty penny ($590,814 net in 1937, $310,458 to June 1938). Of last week's issue, floated to pay off loans and finance expansion, 58,006 shares were new securities, 150,000 were...
...Sweringen sandwich. Chesapeake Corp.'s directors authorized using $2,000,000 of its $7,349,134 earned surplus to cover such claims or liabilities as may arise when the company is dissolved. Concurrently they declared what may be the last regular Chesapeake Corp. dividend-35? per share of common...