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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caliente to ride three more winners. When Bay Meadows closes, he intends to ride for two weeks at a small-time, mile track at Phoenix. He wanted to be dead sure of keeping ahead of Steve Brooks, who was so close on his heels that Johnny Longden could only express his feelings on the matter with a connoisseur's choice of obscenities...
...interest nor any information." English teachers were kidding themselves if they thought "that a child cares whether he speaks correctly . . . until he feels the social pressure of his own group." Another fallacy, said Dr. Leonard, was the common belief "that a boy or girl can learn to express himself correctly, clearly and effectively by taking regular courses in English composition in school." The University of Minnesota's Dora V. Smith agreed. Said she: "The type of writing most used today is the personal letter. Young people don't write about the Roman Empire or Colonial life in America...
Bracken and the Beaver demanded to see General Cinema Finance's balance sheet. The Beaver's Daily Express hinted that the Stock Exchange might suspend dealings in Odeon stock "until full accounts of the General Cinema Finance Corp. . . . have been published." The Tribune, a Socialist weekly, thought that Rank might have lost so much money on his prestige films for the U.S. market that G.C.F. needed a financial transfusion from Odeon...
Back Again. The Railway Express Agency, which got a $61 million annual rate increase in September, last week filed a request with the Interstate Commerce Commission for another 10% raise. The second increase, said officials, was needed to meet a recent 15½% wage increase...
...took over as vice president and board member of American Cyanamid and devoted himself to blasting the New Deal. He wrote a book, The Liberal Tradition, attacking New Deal reforms as "roads leading away from free enterprise." In 1936 he said: "I will go to the polls to express my opposition to the New Deal by voting for Mr. Landon...