Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Confederacy did not measure up to the exploits of its army, that England was the chief beneficiary of Semmes's exploits. For the assistance given the Confederacy by British shipping interests, as well as for a definitive criticism of Confederate and Northern policy, let Readers Semmes, Semmes, et al. consult King Cotton Diplomacy by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Southern-born Professor of history at Vanderbilt University...
This splurge was the signal for a general convention assault upon Ford Motor Co., only automaker not yet brought under U. A. W. contract. Mr. Martin has been dickering privately with Ford's Harry Bennett (TIME, Oct. 24, et seq.). In denouncing anti-union employers he conspicuously avoided mention of the Ford company. Others were not so coy, and C. I. O. pledged itself to boycott Ford products unless or until Henry Ford signs...
...Manhattan last week the U. S. Government edified U. S. citizens with a continued story about spies. Cast as villains of the story were 18 defendants indicted (TIME, March 7 et seq.) as German agents...
...Lake Placid, N. Y. two Junes ago, the U. S. Government collected taxes of $17,520,987 on his $36,137,335 net estate. Four States-as well as his wife and sister-also commenced a fearsome tangle of litigation for their shares (TIME, April 19, 1937, et...
Last year a San Francisco judge found him guilty of pocketing emoluments of some $300,000 from a loan his bank made to a firm reselling Government steel after the War (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937, et seq.). This year another judge ordered him to pay damages of $651,579 for selling at too low a price some oil lands belonging to certain Lazard Frères heirs in 1915-17. Although he has appealed both cases. Herbert Fleishhacker last week cited them in turning in his resignation. "I feel," said he, "that the best interests of the bank...