Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a little suggestion to make in furthering the aims of such an enterprise, which if you think worthy, publish in your columns. As an employe of the Muchenberger Bros. Wallpaper and Paint Co., of Kansas City, Mo., I, with other employes were called together one eve by our President, Mr. Leo Muchenberger to receive not a lecture, but a heart-to-heart talk on the present economic condition of our great and vast country, such as the available markets, present low prices on some of our most needed commodities of every day living, overproduction, and what not. Summing...
Such a forecast, on the eve of a close campaign to control Congress, seriously alarmed President Hoover. Last year's 1% cut was not large financially but it was enormous politically. Failing to continue it this year would seem like raising taxes. The President summoned Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to a White House conference, afterward declared...
...Vossische Zeituag announced that General Wilhelm Heye of the Reichswehr (standing army) would resign his office after the election. Named as his possible successor was General Kurt von Hammerstein, who was seized as a Republican sympathizer in 1920 on the eve of the Kapp putsch (revolution). General Hans von Seeckt, who organized the Reichswehr so efficiently that Allied influence urged his retirement, made his political debut by accepting the new Conservative People's Party nomination for the Reichstag in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt...
Lord Dawson has this in common with Eve: whereas she was made from Adam's side, he was made a privy councillor by the side-piercing of George V. For 20 years he had been advancing at Court toward privy councillorship - Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1911), Companion of the Bath (1916), Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1918), Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George (1919), Knight Commander of the Bath (1926). (He must wear the insignia of those orders at the Winnipeg medical convention.) Professionally he had been "made" long before...
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. on the eve of an expansion (TIME, Aug. 25), reported earnings for the first half of $3,251,000 against $6,196,000 last year. This is 49? a share against a dividend requirement of $2 for the year...