Word: guaranteee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practical Cubans looked not to the rebels in the hills for deliverance but to Havana where U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles was calmly talking business. They wanted him to promise a lower U. S. tariff on sugar, and a U. S. guarantee to buy 2,000,000 tons a year...
¶Defeated (227-to-115) a motion to consider a resolution by New York's Sirovich for an investigation of the cinema industry. The idea was howled down as "a joy ride to Hollywood to pose with movie stars." ¶Adopted a conference report on the Farm Relief bill...
¶Adopted (53-to-28) the conference report on the Farm Relief bill before receding (48-to-33) from its cost-of-production guarantee amendment (see above).
Left over from a time when course grades were, almost exclusively, the basis of the degree, the general honors award has become sharply out of harmony with the ideal and aims of the college. It places unfortunate stress on the grade-grubbing routine and permits neglect of tutorial work, the...
Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") Mo Kec, president of New York City's Board of Aldermen, onetime acting mayor, anti-Tammany white hope for next election, abruptly announced he was quitting politics to become president of Title Guarantee & Trust Co. A newsman asked him: ''Do you mean you...