Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Troy town, city famous in antiquity, fell victim to two of the prime sins of society and perished. The sins, paradoxically, were love and jealousy...
...Margaret Fell Lyon, leading lady of Charleston's Footlight Players, succeeded tall Monimia in the feminine lead of Silvia. Cousin Melinda was played by auburn-haired. 5 ft. 2 in. Alecia Rhett. whose ancestors attended the opening of the first Dock Street Theatre. An artist and a leader in the Footlight Players, pretty 21-year-old Alecia may contribute more than her family name to the film production of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.* She has a contract (without wages) for a part in the forthcoming Hollywood production...
...above war's sorrows soared Bomber Vittorio that he writes: "I remember that one group of horsemen gave me the impression of a budding rose as the bombs fell in their midst...
...strictures, the Commission's chairman was James M. Landis. An amiable watchdog, he made only a partial retort, resigned to become dean of Harvard Law School (TIME, Sept. 27). For not replying in full, the SEC came in for considerable criticism from New Dealers. So when the SEC fell to Chairman William Orville Douglas, he began negotiating with the Stock Exchange for a letter to be written by President Gay explaining that the Exchange had no knife sharpened for the SEC and reviewing the Exchange's own plans to keep its house in order. No less than...
...income of the University from actual investments in stocks and bonds was $4,696,512.83. This figure fell in 1934-35 to $4,655,700.69 due to the number of companies that were forced to stop paying dividends, because of government interference. Repressive legislation created a panic in the financial world, and production was severely hampered, so that there were much smaller profits to be distributed. Since Harvard University depends on these profits to a great extent, the income of the University dropped accordingly...