Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then President Lebrun summoned Leon Blum's Chautemps Cabinet to sit as a formal Council of Ministers and approved decrees flashing every ministerial budget save that of the Defense. Upped was France's Defense budget by $411,675,000. Free-spending Emile Labeyrie resigned as governor of the Bank of France. Conservative Vice Governor Pierre Fournier took his place. The Bank revalued its gold stocks up by $299,400,000. U. S. tourists were able to get three centimes less for every dollar they exchanged...
...vast majority of FTC cases come under the elastic heading "unfair competition," a term which naturally leads it into the trivia of sharp and shady business practice. Anyone may complain to FTC, and sometimes FTC itself takes the initiative. After a preliminary investigation, the FTC may issue a formal complaint against the offender, giving him 20 days to reply. Then FTC holds hearings, comes to a decision. If it is an affirmative decision, FTC then issues a cease-&-desist order, which is a sort of informal injunction. A cease-&-desist order may be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals...
Simpler, speedier than the cease-&-desist procedure is the "stipulation," a promise exacted from the offender before a formal complaint is issued that he will be good in the future. One of the chief criticisms of FTC is that these stipulations are sometimes used as a defense when the offender gets into trouble with other Government bodies such as the Post Office and the Food & Drug Administration. Famed was the case of the mail-order makers of Marmola tablets, a reducing compound. Driven out of business by the Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail...
...often pathetic, often good for a laugh. Critic Edwin H. Schloss of the Record wisely rated the performance "a minor triumph." In the four years she has been dancing at the Dell, handsome Miss Montgomery has triumphed many times before. Her repertoire runs from Renaissance pavans and sarabands to formal, dignified Mozart, and striped, angular performances like the Study in Counter Rhythm for Dancers and Percussion Instruments which she put on at the Dell in 1934. In that year's Maguey she donned a skintight dress that fitted down under her heels, striped to look like a Mexican century...
...losing the match in the fourth. The final between Budge and von Cramm was interrupted once. That was when Queen Mary arrived at her box just after the first set. Two years ago, Budge amused Wimbledon by greeting the Queen with a wave of his racket. Last week, more formal, he bowed from the waist. Before the interruption, Budge had won the first set, 6-3, taking the last five games in a row. After it, with almost unplayable serves and drives that made chalk fly from the corners of his opponent's court, he took the second...