Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chase National Bank, with its Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, its 43 branches, and its offices in ten cities, last week revealed that it had on hand some $3,097,011,177.46 with no place to go, that it had become the world's biggest bank...
...Winston Churchill's declaration that Britain, France and Russia have a "common interest" in checking German agression. Moscow press and radio descriptions of Allied pulling of punches on the Western Front gave most Russians the definite impression that a truce to World War II was already at hand. Red Fleet, organ of the Soviet Navy, while noting that Britain and France have a superiority in tonnage of 374% over the Reich Navy, argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine on the seas and in ports, simultaneously with repeated air attacks on [British and French] industrial centres...
...wild animal which perishes defending its nest, Mayor Starzynski meant what he said when he cried over Warsaw's radio: "We are fighting to death." Last week, as it must even to the greatest men, death came to Stefan the Stubborn. Stubbornly, he died at his own hand, just a few hours before Adolf Hitler entered his city...
Last week Emil Hurja, still in Washington, was publishing a magazine, The Pathfinder. And James Twohey, having tried his hand at various private surveys, brought out his own weekly Analysis of Newspaper Opinion, using the same statistical methods he developed under Mr. Hurja. Twohey thinks his news statistics give at least a cursory indication of public opinion...
...mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year 1,000 of L. S. U.'s 8,550 students were on the State payroll). Last July, when President Smith was indicted for making free with the University's money (TIME, July 10), this lush era came...