Word: extents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition vote did not show the extent of the crisis. About 100 M. P.s who normally support the Government abstained from voting. Among them were Anthony Eden himself, Lord Cranborne (Eden's undersecretary who resigned with him) and Eden's prominent Conservative supporter, Winston Churchill. The Cabinet was finally upheld by a safe margin...
...extent of the organization is restricted to Massachusetts, there being more than 108 hospitals in the State, 24 in the Boston area, which will honor membership cards. Members who intend to travel, however, may obtain Blue Cross Identification Cards which will admit the bearer "to any general hospital in the world." The association further asserts that "no embarrassing questions will be asked" when the member applies for admission...
...interview with the Cornell Daily Sun, Lynah, who is President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Association, said that the Directors' principal objection to the proposed conference is that "it restricts schedule making to an undesirable extent...
...mill, but nobody did. When, early this month, Homes & Davis accidentally heard what had been going on, they promptly discharged him. Very soon they asked him to come back for a while to straighten things out. Mr. Marien's overstatements had been so exuberant-in 1936 to the extent of $879,000-that the officers had voted themselves big bonuses and paid much too much in taxes. But apparently Mr. Marien himself had not acted for profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could not "account for his impulses.'' Meanwhile, impulsive Mr. Marien had been charged with what...
...last quarter of 1937 when business in the United States experienced a recession, business conditions in European nations (1 experienced an even greater depression than American business, 2 revealed a new low of the depression since 1929, 3 abated to about the same extent as in the U. S., 4 revealed no sign of abatement or check of activity, 5 became worse in Great Britain but remained about the same as during the early part of the year in other countries...