Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which reduced that part of his income from $600,000 to $10,000 yearly, his Lordship said he must lease the shooting at Lowther Castle. Worse, he must sell nearly all his racehorses, for a generation among Britain's finest. Also last week, the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (grave Elvina Hinds of Alabama) went into bankruptcy in London...
...Horse Doctor Doyle's immunity came to him in the homely old study of his uptown Manhattan house he found it a question of the sort he loves, of logic and the law. Judge Cardozo could find no satisfactory previous ruling on such a case. But fearing that "grave prejudice to the cause of public justice might ensue" if Dr. Doyle jumped bail and disappeared, he decided that the appellant must go to jail until the whole Court of Appeals had been recalled from its vacation to judge the matter...
...slip down to Tokyo and try a nonstop flight to Seattle for $53.000 prize money. They thought to telegraph the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo for permission to fly over and land on Japanese soil, but neglected to wait for a reply before taking off. That was a grave mistake...
...misrepresented the facts, and has indulged in wilful, slanderous lies. If there is no way to correct this condition peacefully then I propose to use very heroic methods. . . . The acts of the Kansas City Star and/or expressed in the acts of Governor Woodring, are flagrantly lawless, and are a grave threat to the credit and prosperity of the entire district which the Kansas City Star claims to serve. . . . We were told that it was the purpose [of the Kansas bank commissioner, in trying to prohibit sale of Cities Service stock] to throw our companies into the hands of receivers...
...London Conference, said he would spend a few weeks at Wall Hall, his Hertfordshire estate, shoot a few grouse in Scotland. In 1926 a Morgan loan helped save the French franc from collapsing. In 1925 a Morgan bond issue of $100,000,000 helped pull Italy from grave financial difficulties. Four months ago a $60,000,000 international loan, engineered by Morgan, was offered to Royalist Spain to bolster the peseta. The House of Morgan underwrote part of the German Government 5½s in 1930. But in all the conferences, statements, interviews about Germany's greatest crisis...