Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Witness Barrett the battling lawyers draw an amazing story of how Mr. Mitchell made money for his wife. Whenever he bought a good stock, joined a pool or participated in a promising syndicate, he would cut her in. Only once did she lose. Often she was member of a big underwriting syndicate headed by such firms as Kuhn, Loeb or Dillon, Reed. Sometimes he did not even trouble to notify his wife until he mailed a check for her share of the profits. When he did, it was always with a formal letter starting "Dear Elizabeth," and filled with...
...amazed to receive your issue of the 24th on the morning of the 29th. As no five-day boat arrived during that time, I am unable to draw my conclusions. . . . Accept my congratulations for your promptness...
...National Recovery Act, however, was fairly well set. Government and business were to be made partners by means of a Federal Control Board consisting of four members of the Cabinet and an executive chairman. Through their trade associations a majority of each branch of industry was to draw up agreements to ration production, fix prices, eliminate cut-throat competition, set working hours, establish a fair wage scale. The Federal Control Board would approve such agreements as were in the public interest. Others would be ordered revised or scrapped. The anti-trust laws would be waived to permit each agreement...
...battlefield is for a man what motherhood is for a woman!" Seriously worried, Adolf Hitler summoned his puppet Reichstag to hear a great speech on Germany's foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face in Germany. Should he continue to roar he would draw the European ring tighter around him. Closer together than they had been since the War. hoping Hitler would not move brashly toward another war, France, Brit- ain and Italy waited...
...Conference tournament is really two tournaments, one a round-robin for teams, one a draw tournament for individual champions in singles and doubles. That North Carolina would win the team championship against the three other teams entered was a foregone conclusion. Their score was seven points to one for Duke, one for Virginia, none for V. M. I. Wilmer Hines and Lenoir Wright. No. 1 and No. 2 for North Carolina, won the doubles title together and then played each other in the singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines...