Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Prime Minister MacDonald tried to weasel out of aiding Cunard. "The trouble is not to get the Cunarder built," he declared, "but to get the com-pany to believe that when she is built she can be run with some chance of paying her way. There would be no difficulty in getting money for the building if there were any prospect of getting the interest repaid and the loans refunded...
...veto, a bill to legalize parimutuel betting, Sports Gallagher & Dwyer last spring formulated plans for a track to compete with Hialeah. They bought a disused dog-track at Coral Gables, got Frank J. Bruen, onetime Hialeah general manager, to run it for them. When the State Racing Com-mission met last fortnight, it cut Hialeah's customary racing season of 45 days to 36, gave the new track a non-conflicting schedule of 37 days, starting on Dec. 26 before the Hialeah season and resuming after it from Feb. 22 to March 19. Indignant because the new track...
...beard the Federation Board's meeting next week and, instrument in hand, force a vote on the ukulele's status. To plead her case she will present affidavits from famed musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...
...play until they are 10; intellectual and social development can come later. This view Dr. Snedden bases upon experience with his six children (one adopted) whom he sent to school around their eighth year; and upon his work as an educator (superintendent of schools in Paso Robles, Calif., Massachusetts Com- missioner of Education...
...against the year's low of 25!^. For the first time silver trading on the National Metal Exchange, Manhattan, became clamorous, wild. Public buying was attracted because silver can be bought on a 6% margin. Companies with stakes in silver-currency nations were in demand, shares of mining com- panies were widely bought. Copper remained at 7^ but it was reported that consumers were taking all offerings. Manchurian war talk aided bullishness in copper, but the strongest copper shares were those with big silver interests...