Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of other aging temple-dancers, started giving commercial performances for visiting tourists. Two years ago Devi Dja's dancers toured Java and French Indo-China, with Devi Dja billed as the "Balinese Pavlowa." Last spring she took her troupe all the way to Europe, planned to go home...
...stockholders of the $3,000,000,000 Electric Bond and Share system by its chairman, C. E. Groesbeck, who in the last two years alone has hooked his system up to Government generators at twelve points, coordinating public generators with private transmission facilities. This would permit operating companies to go on financing new equipment by selling bonds, preferred stock...
...operating company construction (forced by threatening power shortages)-without any holding company shakeup-may reach somewhere close to $600,000,000 (against perhaps $500,000,000 this year), but is not likely to go higher. Some plans already outlined: > Companies in the Electric Bond and Share system have budgeted $80,000,000 of new construction for 1940 ($66,000,000 authorized this year). > Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal...
...Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel...
...good. In his private letters he said the things he should have said in public. He was almost smug about refusing to use his patronage powers to bring Congressmen into line. He outmaneuvered the silken Senator Nelson Aldrich on the tariff, forced substantial cuts, then watched the whole country go hog-wild over a headline which twisted a few forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration, and a chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment...