Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the prospect of almost nothing to do anyhow, the Foreign Office almost unanimously struck. The Cabinet was not impressed. Most of the diplomatic corps, including Ambassadors in London and Washington, protested. The Cabinet held firm. And so, last week, the 113 dissidents handed in their resignations.
Hopping mad, Bill Cunningham went back to the office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand...
Year ago, the highly reputable National Bureau of Economic Research got a fund from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Association of Reserve City Bankers to study instalment credit. It found a red-haired University of Pennsylvania professor named Ralph Young, and a black-haired Hunter College girl named Blanche Bernstein...
One of the agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner...
Boss of the boys that moved in that night (carrying canvas signs: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, DODGE DIVISION) was the husky, jut-jawed Chrysler general manager whom Walter Chrysler described to his biographer, Boyden Sparkes, as "a great production man." That night at Detroit "K. T." had stayed close to the phone...