Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Errett Cord, Caleb Bragg, Sam Harris and John J. Raskob, who became interested in Nevada mining before and during Inflation, the list of permanent newcomers included Major Max C. Fleischmann, director of Standard Brands, famed Santa Barbara sportsman; Lewis Luckenbach (steamships); Arthur K. Bourne (Singer sewing machines); the fourth Earl of Cowley, Christian Arthur Wellesley, who came for a divorce, stayed to marry and settle down with his favorite nightclub hat-check girl. When William Randolph Hearst threatened to move away from California's taxes, Reno wired him an invitation, as yet unsuccessful...
...Chicago plan calls for courses integrating with the law materials of economics, psychology, political theory, accounting, statistics, ethics and philosophy. Comprehensive examinations covering each year's work will be substituted for traditional course examinations. Independent study and small group consideration of legal problems will be stressed. In the fourth year, before getting the J.D. (Doctor of Jurisprudence) degree, a student will spend half his time on problems of economic organization, the rest in his field of specialization...
...Socialite Thomas Suffern Tailer: the fourth annual Mid-Ocean invitation golf tournament; beating retired Baseballer Babe Ruth 6 & 5 in the final; in Bermuda...
...piece goods, exactly the amount of business booked for U. S. delivery three days preceding the agreement. The surprisingly tractable Japanese further agreed that the situation in 1937 was abnormal, accepted a quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with the option of transferring not more than one-fourth the 1938 quota to 1937. Having thus triumphantly established quantity limitations as the basis for Japanese-American trade in cotton textiles, the U. S. mission, before sailing for home, agreed to appoint members to a joint standing committee before April 1 to set similar quotas in manufactured goods such...
...Walgreen directors voted a 50% stock dividend on common-with the current $2 dividend rate to continue. Previous stock dividends: 1921 (100%); 1922 (8%); 1923 (split ten for one); 1923 (16%); 1924 (16%); 1925 (16%); 1927 (split ten for one); 1934 (5%). Drugman Walgreen & family own nearly one-fourth of the common stock. Says Charles Walgreen: "There are no fixed rules for business success. I was not possessed with a vision that permitted me to foresee the developments that followed. It just happened...