Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into the U. S. Capitol as one of its two most illustrious citizens...
...system works: Sclimitz A. G. of Berlin receive an order for $100.000 worth of sausages from Pierre et Cie of Paris. They fill the order. The sausages are shipped from Berlin to Paris. Thereupon the German Government pays Schmitz A. G. $100.000: and Pierre et Cie pay the French Government $100,000. Obviously the eject of this procedure is that the German Government has paid $100,000 to the French Government, although no money whatever crossed the frontier...
France contended last week that contracts already existing between firms like Schmitz A. G. and Pierre et Cie must not be disturbed by the Hoover Holiday, a primary purpose of which is to promote world trade. But on this point President Hoover set his square jaw. His reason: "such deliveries" are in effect "payments." Mr. Hoover let it be known that "the spirit of the [Hoover] proposal" demands that no reparations payments be made by Germany during the moratorium year except such as are reloaned to Germany through...
...Norway is trying to steal East Greenland!" stormed the Danes. Editorials in the Norwegian press pointed out that, although Denmark claims all Greenland, the region of East Greenland has never been thoroughly explored (much less settled) by white men and has long been claimed by Norway (TIME, June 8 et ante). In Copenhagen last week, Norway and all her works were excitedly denounced in both houses of the Danish parliament, the Landsting and the Folketing...
...Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead; and Ennis Smith, 33, of Manhattan; at Rosarita Beach, Mexico. Five times a bride, she was twice the wife of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who achieved fame when he jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...