Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News of the golf hawk's danger came to grey, wrinkled Clement Lawrence Shaver of West Virginia. Mr. Shaver had just been superseded as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest...
...Sixteen." The affair of Miss Savidge arose when she was acquitted of a charge of improper conduct in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. The two constables who made the false arrest have been fined ?10 ($48), stand today in danger of prosecution for perjury, and would be aided in proving themselves honest men by statements subsequently taken down from Miss Savidge at Scotland Yard. She was hustled there by constables after her acquittal, and examined amid circumstances smacking of the third degree...
Hearst now has 24 newspapers, ten magazines, eight feature, news and film services, also the Cosmopolitan Book Corp. Indeed, there is no danger of the wolf growling at Hearst's door. Good Housekeeping alone is capable of buttering Hearst's bread and of satisfying his large passion for antiques. He may be old (65), but he is not yet ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit...
...Senator Glass's point was that such use of Federal Reserve funds is not only dangerous but outside the law's intention. The danger is patent: when more and more money is speculated, tension increases, crashes are thought to impend-and there is nothing that is, but thinking helps it to be so. The impropriety is less patent: the Federal Reserve law does not prohibit rediscounting of Federal securities for speculative purposes...
...Freshman team to spend a week at Myopia have been changed, and the first year outfit is remaining in Cambridge to secure the necessary mood for the game with the Yale Freshmen at Soldiers Field a week from yesterday. After the successful season of the 1931 aggregation, any danger of a slump due to change in training conditions is felt to be obviated by the continued sojourn in Cambridge...