Word: forehandedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inch chatted amicably with Chairman Landis and his fellow Commissioners, made an inspection tour of the SEC division which will police his business if Bond & Share loses its case. Why Mr. Inch suddenly decided to call on his worst enemy was not revealed but the immediate explanation was that he...
Some forehanded people buy Christmas gifts in August, but the market for Christmas trees never opens until after Thanksgiving. Last week long flatcars laden with evergreens and snow began to roll into New York and Chicago, focal points of the Christmas tree business. In the four weeks before Dec. 25...
Other political parties in the United Kingdom had not yet decided on their attitude but the forehanded Communist Party reached last week the shrewd conclusion that a marriage of the King & Mrs. Simpson would advance its interests by setting the middle classes to quarreling among themselves. Accordingly the sole British...
Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga promptly suspended Parliament for eight days, and all the Monarchist Deputies swore never to return. Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When...
Forehanded Niceto Alcala Zamora had already closed his Presidential Palace desk, gone home where he refused to receive the commission sent to tell him the bad news. Said he: "I am nobody's servant." Automatically elevated to the Provisional Presidency was another Left Republican, Diego Martinez-Barrios, onetime linotype...