Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around to dismissing her. Said Felice Cohn, Nevada's only woman lawyer: "An appalling number of women teachers come to Nevada for 'convenient' divorces. Five of them came on the day I left Reno. Four of them told me they wanted such divorces. Most of them intend at some time to remarry their divorced husbands." Meanwhile lovesick teachers took heart from two straws in the wind: 1) In London the County Council agreed, after holding out for twelve years, to hire married women as teachers. 2) In Washington Dr. Caroline Ware, onetime NRA Consumers' Adviser...
...Light debentures for the securities held by Jesse Jones, thus giving Atlas Corp. working control of the system. Mr. Jones was also pleased because Utilities Power & Light bonds are at present paying interest, whereas his holdings were in default. Last week Mr. Odium declared that Atlas Corp. did not intend to manage Utilities Power & Light, that its move was purely a "temporary investment...
...woman you saw yesterday. She has an extra bed and agreed to rent it to me, but she said that to satisfy the authorities we must go through the form of marriage-only the form! Last night to my amazement, Comrade, this old woman showed that she does not intend to let our marriage remain a legal form, and I escaped with difficulty. This morning I simply must get divorced...
...will see that I am right. ... I recognize your goodwill, but Ethiopia is as important to Italy as the British Imperial conquests were to Britain in the time of Raleigh. . . . This is a day when men who can rule should rule and not vacate their places and duties. I intend to rule. . . . The world must not forget that world production is useless and will become stagnated unless it is permitted to flow into undeveloped countries. Ethiopia must provide for important consumption of world and Italian production...
...Rockefeller Institute experimenters last week had no such fantastic ideas. They believe that knowledge of the human body is the sum of knowledge of each one of its parts. Hence they intend to study one organ at a time in their machine. Thus they hope to make the thyroid gland, the adrenals and each of the other endocrine glands yield their hormones in pure form and in such abundance that endocrinologists will no longer be obliged to haunt slaughterhouses for their supplies. Thus, too, they hope to watch hardening developing in arteries, goitres in thyroids, tuberculosis in lungs, rheumatic fever...