Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointe Coupée eventually diverted its inheritance to building a school, but except in the Civil War years, West Baton Rouge annually had distributed the interest on Julien Poydras' money to dark, full-breasted Creole brides. Of the $2,400 or so paid each year, the poorest brides get the most. Just how much each receives is the secret of the three commissioners who administer the fund. Otherwise, jealousies might cloud the fame of Julien Poydras...
Inflationary and promissory plans like this have long distracted German financial experts (except Hjalmar Schacht, who controlled currency with a firm hand). Latest to crack under the strain is Reichsbank Vice President Dr. Rudolf Brinkmann, who lasted less than four weeks in office. One day just before he was sent to a sanatorium for a rest, Herr Brinkmann was feeling on top of the world. Carefully going through the personnel of the Reichsbank and picking out many of the most talented men, he called them together. He also summoned a brass band. "Play a march," he said to the band...
...Britain of Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
...fore & aft cupola of fiction's most famed detective. Unlike his pipsqueak present-day imitators, who solve crimes while airing their wives' dogs, getting drunk or talking pidgin English, Sherlock Holmes was a literate patrician who always took his work seriously, permitting himself no distractions except an occasional shot of morphine when he was bored. For the Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel Bruce) for his needle, he solves in satisfactory style Conan Doyle's gloom...
Priests. When Lewis Brown went to work for Johns-Manville in 1927, business executives generally considered that they had only one duty-to provide their stockholders with bigger profits. Except for that, the way they ran their businesses was no one's business but their...