Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open letter in Social Justice last week, Father Coughlin said that 90% of the Christian Mobilizers were "fine people," but its leadership was allied with the Bund. Therefore, said he, ''as much as I need $128," he was returning a check for that sum which had been raised for him by Christian Mobilizers in The Bronx...
...Anatomist Eleanor Linton Clark of the University of Pennsylvania accidentally ran a glass tube, fine as a hair, into her finger. A few days later, when her finger swelled, her husband & colleague, Anatomist Eliot Round Clark, probed out the sliver of glass. To their amazement, the Clarks saw tiny blood vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy...
...guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana, guilty. He began the list of individual defendants: Alfred P. Sloan, William S. Knudsen, M. E. Coyle. . . . Over the faces of the defendants fell a dark shadow. The maximum penalty for the conspiracy as charged was a fine of $5,000 and a year in jail...
Next day Judge Lindley slapped a $5,000 fine on each of the four corporations, ordered them to pay the cost of prosecution, estimated at $500,000 to $1,000,000. He did so in spite of defense motions to throw out the peculiar verdict. Said he wryly...
Thus, two of the land's biggest tycoons handed over one of the land's biggest corporations to their successors. It was a fine thing for G.E. to have as board chairman one who forced down the throats of European politicos a 70% reduction in German reparations, and who was now & then mentioned for the U. S. Presidency as a public-minded businessman. Likewise it was a fine thing for G.E. to have Gerard Swope for president, because though he concentrated on operations, he went about a good deal, was on any number of boards and committees...