Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since a great and ruthless effort will now be made to maintain the value of the ruble in Russia at 20?,* the State further decreed last week: 1) that all "Torgsin Stores'' which have sold goods in Russia for foreign currency exclusively are abolished as of Dec. 15; 2) that all foreign tourists, who have hitherto been discouraged by every means from the use of rubles (for fear they might have got them at "black bourse" rates), are from now on compelled to make all purchases in Russia with rubles bought at the State Bank...
Died. John A. Pilgard, 69, merchant and Democratic Mayor-elect of Hartford, Conn., after six weeks' illness of abscessed teeth and a gall bladder ailment; in Hartford. Hospitalized early in October, he was elected by an unprecedented plurality, would have been inaugurated Dec...
...another rich man's son, started a Society for Contemporary Art, exhibited painting, sculpture, photography. As an undergraduate Kirstein founded the magazine Hound & Horn, kept it intellectually alive until 1934 when dancing became his dominant interest. With Edward Warburg, Kirstein then founded the School of American Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject...
...What the Administration wants is a clear-cut case of the U. S. versus a holding company, so that an adverse decision may be appealed by Government counsel. After Judge Coleman's resounding opinion last week, it looked as if the Government could pick its own case after Dec. 1, by which date all holding companies must register with SEC. Then SEC may be confronted with mass rebellion on the part of big holding companies, can prosecute for noncompliance with the law, which to date has not been violated. Sensing the threatened revolt, SEChairman Landis called upon powermen...
...appearance of an insect; a description of a nurse who, in a world of dying men, began to complain of an earache. The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys is a two-volume affair running to 1,271 pages, covering the period from June 7, 1911 to Dec. 31, 1934. Since it was written by Franklin Pierce Adams for his Always in Good Humor and Conning Tower columns in the New York Evening Mail, World and Herald Tribune, it contains only such incidents and opinions as are commonly expressed in public, possesses a modest historical importance for its reflection...