Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily publication tabloid in form but TIME-worthy in content...
...stock sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...
...have merely left the old dilemma." Specifically Britain, which owed $75,950,000 last week, made a silver token payment worth some $7,200,000 but accepted as $10,000,000. Italy promptly followed with a $1,000,000 silver token for her $13,545,000 owed. Czechoslovakia, normally content to follow France but nowadays striking out as the acknowledged leader of the Little Entente, tokened $180,000 for $1,500,000. Rumania chipped in $25,000 for $1,000,000; Latvia which owed $118,961 paid $6,000-and that...
Last week swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee wound up his efforts to pin scandal on J. P. Morgan & Co. by trying to prove that its partners had been evading income taxes (see p. 13). Not content to let the inquiry end upon this note, the House of Morgan countered by making two statements. First was a memorandum submitted by John P. Morgan answering Mr. Pccora's criticisms...
...when he is portraying the asinine and brutal vulgarity of the modern young bloods and contrasting it with the traditional wisdom and courtesy of the old generation, Author Macdonell's good nature breaks down into invective or falters into sentimentality. But most of the time he is content to point a blunt and sudden finger, raise a hearty laugh...