Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the U. S. Supreme Court's civil suit decision that the transfer of the Elk Hills lease from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior (1921) had been illegal. The lawyers claimed that, assuming that this transfer was illegal, Mr. Fall had no authority to deal with Mr. Doheny on the leasing question. And in a previous case a federal court had decided that no bribery charge could be brought against an official who was being induced to promise something the performance of which lay outside the duties of his office. (If for instance...
...Darmstadter-und-National bank until 1923, worked with the Reich Currency Commission that set up the present gold mark standard in Germany, cooperated with the (Charles Gates) Dawes Committee on German reparations. He has been president of the Reichsbank since 1924. He is a stern man to deal with, imperturbable and ruthless in carrying out a fiscal program. Only seven weeks ago, when German speculators were running wild, he passed put instructions that loans to Berlin stock market operators be instantly reduced by onefourth. There was panic on the Berlin Bourse (TIME...
...than most," which is no panegyric. There are two impecunious fellows who masquerade in Lower Falls, Mass., as captains of industry. They are soothingly played these hot days by Andrew Tombes and Russell Mack. During their pretentious sojourn in the small town they become involved in a water power deal of large proportions, and love. The comedy consists of scrambling out of the mess of presumptions on the day of reckoning with a whole face and heart. From this the reader may have guessed that the show is based on James Gleason's onetime farce vehicle, Like a King...
...York," Mr. Hearst entered upon a comparison between the newspaper and the author: "There are various elements of interest in the fiction stories which appear in books and on the stage, and in the fact stories which appear in newspapers-such as romance, adventure, melodrama, comedy and tragedy. . . . "In dealing with all of these elements of interest, all of these facts of life, the editor, however, must exercise good taste. . . . just as the playwright or the novelist must. "And as a matter of plain fact, the editor generally exercises, and should exercise, and in fact must exercise, more discrimination than...
...very careful study of the [loan] contract, reveals that it does not in the least deal with a straight loan at all. In other words, the bankers are not lending Nicaragua one red penny of their money...