Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statesmen Daladier and Chamberlain are also shopping for Turkey as an ally of Democracy. London reported last week the imminent prospect of a formal military alliance between His Majesty's Government and that of Dictator Kamal Atatürk, a hard-drinking but clear-headed Asiatic general who was pro-Soviet during the years when Moscow made that worth his while, has lately been pro-Nazi, is now emerging as the great Mohammedan champion of Democracy. Kamal Atatürk has now received a $30,000,000 British loan, dispatches confirmed last week, and Turkey has agreed to spend...
...rates for industrial bonds, was a Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) $50,000,000 issue of 15-year, 2¾% debentures and a$35,000,000 issue of serial notes yielding from 1¾% to 2½%. In early bidding the debentures jumped to a premium of 99½ (formal price was 99), while the notes (priced at 100) went to a premium of ½ point. Same day Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., sold $10,000,000 in 4½% debentures at 99. These offerings were the first sign of life in the capital market since U. S. Steel...
...trying a week as last the Duchess' charges, which she phrased as a formal question, would have elicited the usual day-later answer from the Prime Minister, but by next day the Sandys storm had swept over the House, burying the Duchess' question beneath...
...ordeal by fire were, however, disappointed. Dr. Lowell at 81 still thinks, for example, despite the contrary findings of modern psychologists, that Latin, Greek and mathematics are the most valuable subjects for training youngsters to think. He believes it is better for a boy to learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris, for a boy who learns by the second method "has had no more mental discipline than a little street Arab in a foreign town." Still stanchly Tory, he sums up his social views: "Truly the future has less...
...Last January he went out of bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman...