Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Bertil's motorcycle police escort credited him with driving 36 miles (Syosset, L. I. to Manhattan) in 20 min. *Following an old union custom, A. F. of L. bricklayers gave Franklin D. Roosevelt an honorary card in 1936, when he laid the cornerstone for the Department of Interior Building...
Seniors will receive their diplomas in the main corridor of Sever Hall this year immediately after the Commencement exercises. This is a change from the custom of many years to distribute the diplomas at Memorial Hall, and is caused by the fact that the Class of 1913 will hold its Commenceday day spread in Memorial Hall rather than in the Yard...
...conversation among last week's frolicking bond men. For many years banks buying bonds have generally relied on the ratings published by the four big statistical services-Standard Statistics, Moody's, Poor's and Fitch's.* In 1936 the Comptroller of the Currency made this custom a requirement in cases when bonds are of doubtful value. Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller has put the 'recognized' agencies into...
...equal number of French youngsters. The U. S. children will write in French, the French in English, each will correct the other. But the French Correspondance Scolaire Internationale, sponsor of this friendly and educational gesture, insisted on one restriction which Mr. Wilkins could explain only as an old French custom: French boys may write to U.S. girls, but U. S. boys may not write to French girls...
...native, anti-British, pro-Nazi Nationalist Party had designed the poster as a "horrible example" of what would happen if Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog's and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Smuts's United Party Government were continued in office. Left unmentioned was the fact that custom prevents miscegenation in the Union of South Africa and between 1932 and 1936 records show that not one white woman had married a native in the Union...