Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even this dramatic offer drew only perfunctory Conference applause as Mr. Gibson left the tribune. He was followed by icy Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary. "The object of this Conference," Sir John witheringly observed, "is to induce agreement. Agreement is not to be obtained by unilateral statement but by cooperation, by give & take...
Suddenly, just as the Hoover program was becoming snagged and snarled, handsome Dino Grandi, Foreign Minister of Italy, stood up, spoke a few crisp words, drew thunderous applause and gallery cheers...
...silent in debate since last October, mum since the General Election of that month robbed him of all following in the House except three M. P.'s who are members of his family.? Seeing his chance last week the Welshman rose and launched into an oration which soon drew cheer on cheer...
...thousands of investors who bought Kreuger & Toll and International Match securities obtain redress from the bankers of these companies? Last week an answer to this much-asked question drew closer. In Manhattan one Florence Bramson, owner of five International Match $1,000 debenture bonds (worth $17.50 each last week), brought suit against Guaranty Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co., charging not fraud but misrepresentation of facts. Another suit against Lee, Higginson & Co. was filed last week by Alice F. and Edith S. Tilton of Milton, Mass., owners of Kreuger & Toll securities. They too charged misrepresentation, sought their money back...
Urging that sports budgets be drastically pruned, the committee which drew up the new program took vigorous exception to recent policy, declaring that "the tremendous cost of athletics at Yale, as well as at all other universities, is the outgrowth of the nation-wide wave of post-war extravagance." . . . Expenditures have been boosted so high that the committee has been forced to figure out ways in which the Athletic Association's debt can be liquidated by 1935. The retrenchment, however, is not merely financial. The committee desires also to defiate the present football ballyhoo. . . This is no mere taking away...