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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around here. Put the paid bills on the hook!" (see cut). Since he landed, the Ambassador has cut French expenditures by six billion francs ($222,000,000), imposed ten and a half billions in new taxes ($388,500,000), and last week he slapped "on the hook" a new contract with the Bank of France. Under this the Bank's gold stocks were revalued more nearly to correspond with the depreciated value of the franc, thus effecting a "profit" of six billions earmarked by M. Bonnet as a fund for defense of the franc and Government bonds...
Into the Washington embassy of the Spanish Leftists stepped onetime U. S. Army Pilot Harold Dahl. A secretary offered him a contract at $1,500 per week to act as an instructor of Leftist fliers in Spain. The contract provided that Pilot Dahl's wages be paid outside of Spain directly to his bride, Mrs. Edith Rogers Dahl, who used to appear with Crooner Rudy Vallee's band. After signing, Pilot Dahl was sent to Mexico, provided there with a passport showing him to be a Spaniard by the name of Hernandez Diaz. Bridegroom Dahl sailed for Spain...
Last week Cissy Patterson signed a contract leasing both the Herald and the Times for five years, with an option to purchase them at a predetermined price...
Shocked was Judge Barnes by the "speed and lack of deliberation" with which the bankers acted. After a chat with a First National vice president, a Harris Trust vice president suddenly announced to the Ernsts that unless they signed a contract giving full management powers to Adman Skinner, the Prima loans would be called and suits started against the Ernsts, who had personally guaranteed the Prima notes. The Ernsts signed the same day they received this ultimatum, and Mr. Skinner moved...
...nurses or doctors contract tuberculosis from their patients, that, in the eye of New York State's law, is their bad luck. This attitude reflects the fact that practically all human beings are infected at some time in their lives by the germs of tuberculosis; if the disease explodes in a nurse while she works in a special tuberculosis hospital, it is an accident of life, not an occupational damage...