Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infallibility. But then, when redheaded, tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...
Last week the six railroaders echoed the Splawn recommendations for repeal of land-grant freight rates for Government traffic, creation of a Transport Board to supervise all transport, creation of a special railroad court to handle reorganizations, loosening of RFC purse strings, and relieving ICC of the necessity of certifying that roads borrowing from RFC are not in need of reorganization. Only major additions were pleas for a flexible rate structure adaptable to changing business conditions, for equal taxes on competing forms of transport, for terminating ICC sponsorship of consolidations...
Thus St. Luke and St. Matthew reported the most important event of their time-to Christians, the most important event in the world since its creation. This week Christendom marks the anniversary of Christ's Nativity. Sober Christians, celebrating the feast in a world of fears, troubles and confusions, could well wonder whether, in the 1,943 years* since their Saviour's birth, Christendom had ever been so sorely beset...
...control." Wise old A. P. had already prepared for such a contingency year and a half ago by rearranging Transamerica's stock so it could be switched quickly to an investment trust. It was on this realignment that SEC last week cracked down with 18 specific charges, from "creation of fictitious reserves" to paying Banker Gian nini some $700,000 instead of the $1 a year he reported. Flatly denying this salary accusation, Transamerica last week claimed that the other charges were "based entirely on a theory of accounting...
...concert will feature a joint rendering of two choruses of Haydn's Oratorial Creation. G. Woodworth will conduct the Glee Club in their special numbers...