Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thingumabob . . . gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead" (TIME, Aug. 22). Let TIME or veterinary scientists explain why broken ankles and legs cannot be set, why valuable horseflesh is sacrificed. There must be a reason, other than such horses' usefulness as moneymakers (or losers) is ended...
...trouble which beset the Youngstown issue helps explain a relatively new departure in U. S. financing-private sale of securities from corporation to investor without benefit of underwriters or SEC. Last year this kind of quiet dickering achieved a record volume of $500,000,000. This year, private sales have already reached $300,000,000. Fortnight ago, Celanese Corp. floated $10,000,000 in debentures privately. Other examples: U. S. Rubber, $45,000,000; Consolidated Oil $25,000,000; Detroit Edison...
Aware of this, President Lasser went to Chairman Sheppard of the Senate's Campaign Expenditures Committee to explain that the Workers Alliance fund would not: 1) be raised exclusively among WPA workers, 2) be contributed to any party war-chest, 3) spent by anyone but the Workers Alliance-for pamphlets, mass meetings, radio time to tell the unemployed where their "interests" in the Congressional campaign lie. Unimpressed, Chairman Sheppard last week wrote to President Lasser: "Personally, I warn you . . . not to carry out this proposed plan. . . . If you proceed. . . and if the committee should agree with my interpretation...
...Council is in charge of class elections, appointments of committees, supervision of undergraduate activities, support of charities, and co-operation with the college authorities in all questions concerning the undergraduates. It is not necessary here to outline the routine duties and powers of the Council, but rather to explain those functions which directly influence the lives of students in Harvard College...
General Franco's answer asked the British to explain how the Non-intervention Committee could possibly expect to get an accurate count on Leftist volunteers, since (the note charged) they: 1) are presented with Spanish names and Spanish passports; 2) do not have distinguishing marks; 3) are generally placed at the front; 4) could be hidden among the civilian population; 5) could be assigned to the medical corps...