Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the British Government formally announced that not only would the four alleged puppet-killers in Tientsin be handed over, but also a fifth man, previously unmentioned. The British proudly stated that the fifth man had been surrendered only with the proviso that the British Consul General could occasionally go and look at him to make sure that he was not being tortured...
...week's end Japanese Ambassador-at-Large Sotomatsu Kato warned Sir Robert that unless Great Britain resumed negotiations within 24 hours, the Army delegations would break up the parley, go back to Tientsin, set off another boiler under Neville Chamberlain. After 24 hours the parley was still recessed. Without losing their tempers, the soldiers buckled on their swords and flew back to China. "If Britain mends her ways," said one, "we might come back...
...Russian peasant is a stubborn lad, and all this made him extremely unhappy. His unhappiness may well have a withering effect on Russia's bumper wheat crop. For when Ivan is unhappy, as the Soviet Government learned during 1932, he sits and sulks and watches the grain go to the devil...
...told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer, but what the hell for I don't know...
From this operating profit of its first 102 days (82 days to go), the Fair paid $2,314,990 to a trustee towards retirement of its $26,995,000 of 4% bonds, and $1,659,665 to reduce a $3,500,000 bank loan. That left very little in the kitty. It had on August 2 about $1,613,000 of cash and accounts receivable, quick assets, which amounted to only about 40% of its quick liabilities. For the Fair had still to retire a $1,700,000 bank loan, had $4,113,000 of unpaid and past due bills...