Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After stopping the night on one of these trips with a young Mexican owner of some 50,000 acres, President Cárdenas invited his host to accompany him in riding over the estates. Presently they clattered up to some still-smoking hovels and a group of dispossessed peons standing abjectly in the road. The peons explained to the President that they were squatters who had refused to be dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host...
John (formerly Jules) Garfield, like Franchot Tone, J. Edward Bromberg and Luther Adler, went to Hollywood from Manhattan's Group Theatre. In Four Daughters' almost negative cast, he is the sole positive charge...
...audience roared applause. Two days later, an outsider, Political Economist Harold Adams Innis of the University of Toronto, told the conference: "You have reached the dangerous stage in which all men think well of you." Less gallant was the University's Peter Nearing's plea for group medical care: "Our women are . . . puny, with few Venuses among them. We see our men as undersized and misshapen. . . . Our beaches look like circus sideshows." Nova Scotians supposed that soon Father Jimmy would fix that...
...morning last week a group of Manhattan underwriters met in a light, breezy room of Morgan Stanley & Co. at No. 2 Wall Street. That afternoon a Morgan Stanley syndicate was to begin selling the biggest foreign bond issue since April 1937-$25,000,000 in 4 ½%, ten-year Argentine bonds. Having already spent a rumored $50,000 to prepare the issue, the underwriters expected by noon to fix the price, parcel out the shares. At 11:45 tne telephone rang. The Argentine Government, said a spokesman calling from Buenos Aires, wished to call off the deal; "market conditions" were...
...business leaders as a group tot up these mixed figures was last week ascertained by Chairman George A. Sloan of the Consumers' Goods Industries Committee, who compiled a survey of opinion. He announced: "Reports . . . point to some definite improvements in demand and production and more especially in morale. . . . By and large these reports present evidence of hope and expectation rather than any material realization...