Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim arrived in Cuba, one of the crankiest, most vexatious problems he found waiting settlement was a $9,000,000 real estate claim of U. S. citizen Joseph E. Barlow, long-time Havana resident and land promoter (TIME, April 29 et seq.). For ten years Mr. Barlow, at times irascible, had been pressing the U. S. Government for justice from Cubans he claimed had stolen his property. Last week Ambassador Guggenheim thought he had found a method of settlement. Citizen Barlow balked at the arrangement...
...Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England, chief British delegate at the Young Plan Conference (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929 et...
...Passed, after a three-day debate, a bill transferring Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice (TIME, Jan. 27 et...
...Walmsley, red-headed regular, whose insurgent opponent was Francis Williams. Nominee Walmsley has been acting mayor in the absence of Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The issue in the Democratic primary was last year's bloody trolley strike (TIME, July 15 et seq.). Accusing Candidate Walmsley of helping Public Service Corp. to break the strike, Candidate Williams begged workingmen to "kick the aristocracy out of City Hall." Candidate Walmsley talked of Law & Order, changed the subject to civic progress. A dirty muckraking campaign though the primary was, with each candidate charging...
...power companies of the world. Far-distant as this may be, last week's deal gave Bond & Share a large wedge in the European utility situation and placed it in a position to compete with the melliferous Sofina (Société Financière de transports et d'enterprises industrielles), which is second in size only to Bond & Share, operates throughout Europe and in South America. Sofina is a vast holding company controlled by the Dannie Heineman interests of Belgium, and also linked with the potent Gesfurel (Gesellschaft für Elektrizität), likewise...