Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Valiant is the Word for Carrie (Paramount) restores to circulation that fine old institution of the U. S. entertainment business, the noble prostitute. To the cottage on the outskirts of Crebillon...
...intended. At the last moment lawyers discovered that, though property of German individuals and of the German Reich was safe from legal action, holders of defaulted German municipal bonds might possibly be able to seize pictures belonging to German municipal museums. Twenty-six pictures were hastily withdrawn, including two fine Holbeins, a Dűrer, three Altdorfers and two portraits by famed Bartholomaeus Bruyn. In the 81 paintings and 150 drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important of the 1936 season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach...
...fellows have gone home, and you will go with the recollection that there was one banker that did not have a yellow streak all the way from his heels to the top of his head." For not putting FDIC signs on his tellers' windows the Government threatened to fine Banker Nichols $100 per day per window. Promptly, Banker Nichols threatened to close all but one window. In an expansive mood, he once began a letter to Comptroller of the Currency James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor: "Top o' the Mornin' to Ye, Mr. O'Connor...
Masonite was jockeyed into a fine position for revival in building by winning a patent infringement suit in 1933 against Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp., No. 1 U. S. wallboard makers. Mr. Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...
Meanwhile the School of Design as a unit has shown many signs of brimming vitality. Among the most important of its innovations was the creation, in conjunction with the Division of Fine Arts, of a new undergraduate field of concentration in the history and principles of design. Of a more general character was the decision to consolidate scholarships, following the Conant plan, so that the range from $200-$1200 will be adjusted to financial need. Further the facilities of the draughting rooms and the library have been much improved...