Word: importances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, straight and spry when he made his budget speech fortnight ago, Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer was sorely crippled by a sudden attack of lumbago last week. Slowly, painfully he limped into the Treasury for an important conference with Sir George Ernest May. the actuary who is chairman of Great Britain's important Import Duties Advisory Committee of three...
...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...
Eastman Kodak today is credited with doing 90% of U. S. photographic business and more than 60% of world business. From 1880 to 1925 the company was almost entirely a one-man affair, Eastman personally making every decision of import. In 1925 he retired as president and general manager, became chairman of the board. Said he: "The remaining years are very precious to me and I am now doing what the movies call a 'fade-out.'" A thoroughgoing philanthropist, he gave away some $75,000,000, probably retained only a small Kodak interest. Major gifts were: to Massachusetts Institute...
...eastern United States is highly chimerical. Specifically do we refer to the current front pages of the "Daily Princetonian" and the "Harvard Crimson," whose make-ups bear voluminous descriptive stories of basketball games, alumni meetings, and polo contests, with too infrequent reference to matters of national and international import...
...baboon, the face of a gargoyle and the courage of a juvenile Lenin. Smartest of pickpockets when he roved the Moscow streets, Mustapha helps lick his cronies into social shape and is pleased with plans to build 50 mi. of railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide work for idle hands. A model of regeneration, his great moment arrives when Fomka Zhigan, onetime Fagin of the wild boys, establishes a brothel near the Children's Collective. Aided by his comrades, Mustapha demolishes the place much as Carrie Nation used to demolish saloons, is later...