Word: embark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ceddie (Bartholomew) is discovered in Brooklyn where his best friends are the apple woman on the corner, the bootblack and the neighborhood grocer (Guy Kibbee). When his grandfather's solicitor (Henry Stephenson) calls to announce that Ceddie is heir to the Earldom of Dorincourt, Ceddie and Dearest embark for England. When they get there the tragic separation of Ceddie and his mother, whom the crotchety Old Earl (Smith) refuses to meet, is soft-pedaled. The emphasis is placed on Ceddie's dealings with his grandfather, upon whom his influence is so healthy that the Old Earl presently stops...
...will had only academic interest for the public. All of Florida East Coast's stock was held by the Flagler estate, the only publicly-owned securities being equipment trust certificates and a small first mortgage bond issue. But in order to handle boom traffic, the road had to embark upon a development program which included double-tracking the main line from Jacksonville to Miami. Consequently $45,000,000 of bonds were marketed through J. P. Morgan & Co. Peak year for the 812-mile "Flagler System" was 1926, when gross revenues were $29,400,000, of which...
While Americans may sit at ease and bless the fact that are separated from the theatre of European conflicts by three thousand miles of clear, blue sea, the fact remains that this country will soon embark on a program of re-arming that would surprise the most ardent militarist in the War College. The clouds across the Pacific loom too large to be ignored any longer. Investigations by the War Department have revealed only too starkly our utter unpreparedness and the inefficiency of much of our material. Both our war lords and the yellow press have hammered away...
...Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint of entrenching the Ogpu as a permanent and self-supporting organ of the State. The idea: to embark on major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic...
...undertake the far-sighted activities so vaguely sketched in Mr. Sweezy's statement. Professor Holcombe, President of the other body, has stated that the Association is enough for the older men, but that the Union is needed to satisfy the aspirations of the younger. Hence the Union must embark on its youthful aims. We must hear more of the connections with the Cambridge Central Labor Union and with kindred associations. We must hear more of self-education for the members, and of erecting bulwarks against the possible advent of such evils as Fascism. Otherwise the Cambridge Union of University Teachers...