Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name...
...week came the announcement of a preliminary agreement between Sir John and Persia's Shah: Anglo-Persian will in future pay the Persian Government 21% royalties instead of 16% and will turn over 2½% of the profits of its subsidiaries. Persia on its part will grant the com pany a 60-year concession for the exclusive exploitation of untouched North Per sian oilfields and extension of the present concession for the same length of time...
...Paul Revere. Back in 1907 its presses hummed night & day-printing clearing house certificates. And though printing engraved certificates is a slow and delicate process. Bank Note's skilled em-ployes (some of them representing the fifth generation with the company) had presses rolling in short order while com-pany police guarded outside...
...practice first in Arkansas, then in Kansas, was gotten through diplomas from a defunct, unrecognized school and a notorious "mill." But the State Attorney General's office was flooded with letters of protest when Dr. Brinkley's license was revoked in 1930. In 1930 the Federal Radio Com- mission refused to renew his license to operate KFKB on the grounds of "obscenity," Dr. Brinkley built a $350,000 station (XER) over the Texas border at Villa Acuna. Mexico. By remote control he is still able to sit in Kansas, "pipe" his voice to Mexico, have it broadcast back...
...Secretary Hurley did com plain about news stories filed by Pearson to the Sun in recent months, but made no protest about the "Cotillion Leader" chapter in More Merry-Go-Round. Of their own volition, Sun executives decided that Pearson's part in the book was a "last straw," that his usefulness to the news paper was ended...