Word: holder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neighbors gathered. The plasterer, whistling cheerfully at his work, continued to slosh plaster. At 12:15 p. m. House holder Machon stepped forward, dropped on both knees. "Haro! Haro! Haro!" he cried slowly and distinctly, "a I'aide mon prince, on me fait tort...
...more "typical" Frenchman was ever born. Owner of a small estate and vineyard in Touraine, son of a mediocre politician who once was Vice-President of the Senate, onetime mayor of Tours, and thrice holder for brief periods of the Ministry of Interior, once of the Ministry of Justice, it may be said of M. Chautemps that nothing can be said of him which would not apply as well to a score of other Deputies. His rise to leadership of the Radical Socialists resulted primarily from the fall of Edouard Daladier, after the latter's ignominious failure to form...
While she was fighting one battle in Washington, Miss Bendelari heard that she had won another in Paris, against no less impressive an opponent than the Svenska Tändsticksaktiebolaget, creditor of nations, holder of huge match monopolies (TIME, Oct. 28). The Swedish Match Trust had bought the building containing her tiny Paris shoe store facing the Place Vendome; she, shrewd, had refused to surrender her $150-a-year lease even when wreckers began to demolish the building. Last week the Trust capitulated, paid her $25,000 for her lease...
Garvan. No holder of American I. G. bonds is Francis Garvan. He first came into prominence when he was made Alien Property Custodian. One of his acts was to confiscate German chemical patents and sell them to the Chemical Foundation (of which he is head) for the fostering of the U. S. chemical industry. In 1919 he was awarded the Priestley medal "for being the greatest lay patron of chemistry." Later, criminal proceedings were started against him for the sale of the German patents, but he was exonerated...
Since these facts were not concealed, Assistant Attorney General Washburn replied there was no fraud in selling the bonds. Significant seemed the fact that no holder of the bonds joined in the complaint, for while the redeemable feature may be unusual it still leaves a speculative interest to the issue...