Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. This prize is open only to members of the Senior Class of Harvard College and to Special Students in their third or fourth year who have taken courses in Political Science and English Literature. Essays must be submitted by the first...
...down in the club house, ordered lunch and arrogantly advised the waiter to "take an aspirin to Mr. Little." In the afternoon. Little was 3 up at the tenth. Emery won the next two holes and it looked suddenly as if fate might still trick Little out of his fourth straight title...
That by no means completed the list of securities advertised by J. P. Morgan. In their desperate effort to shore up their cracking pyramid in 1930, the Van Sweringens scraped their strong boxes for such items as 196 shares of Long Lake Co.. 250 shares of Huron Fourth Co., a past-due note of Higbee Co. for $1,292,534, second mortgage bonds of Cleveland Terminals Building Co. now in default, a $2,595,399 subordinated note of Van Sweringen Corp, due last...
Sorriest Class I railroad in the U. S. is Minneapolis & St. Louis ("The Peoria Gateway"). It has been in receivership for twelve years, owes accumulated interest equal to one-fourth of its assets, which are largely nominal, and is still indebted to the Government for loans from the Wartime Director General of Railroads. In desperation RF Chairman Jesse Jones proposed to partition M. & St. L. among eight more solvent neighbors (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week after a year of dickering, the eight systems petitioned the Interstate Commerce for permission to start carving...
...Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth-of-July oratory, gives the general impression that in its composition an agreeably funny idea has been sacrificed for the sake of a stale parody and a secretly serious purpose...